Re: Where to send issues

[Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>]

On Wed, 2024-01-24 at 11:15 +0300, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-01-24 at 09:05 +0100, Lukáš Jiřiště via Libc-help wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > this is exciting as this is my first time ever using mailing list.
> > I'm writing this, because I wanted to know, where to submit a minor
> > typo in
> > the GNU libc manual or whether there's a way I can fix it myself.
> > Thank you all in advance. Have a nice day.
> 
> You can fix it yourself and send to a libc-alpha@sourceware.org ML.
> But
> Glibc is very tough to contribute to because of lack of reviews for
> patches, so patches often just hang in there for years. I've seen it
> both from the side (you often see people ping over and over) and I
> have
> myself a series of small fixes from 2019 or something that I was
> pinging but to my knowledge by this day nobody reviewed it.

Ah, and you also need to sign some documents to be able to contribute
to glibc 😂 FTR, I have signed it, it's just an oddness that GNU
projects have. So, yeah, there's that as well 😄

> So unless you are motivated to ping over and over, I'd advice just
> fill
> a bugreport. You can do that here
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi, chose "libc" as a
> product.