uClibc master is frozen in preparation of 0.9.31

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 08:41:23AM +0100, Natanael Copa wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
><rep.dot.nop at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> uClibc master is frozen in preparation of 0.9.31.
>
>That was good news! Congratulations!
>
>Is NPTL planned to go in there?

0.9.31 is an checkpoint release to let people use all the good
improvements that went into master since 0.9.30 was branched (including
m68k fixes, etc).
>
>> The only (non-documentation) changes that may be made are changes that
>> fix bugs or add new ports which do not require changes to other parts of
>> the library. New functionality may not be introduced during this period.
>>
>> Known bugs that would be nice to get verified and fixed are:
>> https://bugs.uclibc.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=uClibc
>> Pick any three :)
>
>Feels a bit meaningless to work on those linuxthreads bugs when NPTL
>is on the way.

verifying here means to check if they are still relevant on NPTL and if
so, fix them there, otherwise note in the bug that it is fixed in .32

>> I expect that the freeze will last at most two months and after that
>> 0.9.31 will be branched and master will be re-opened.
>>
>> happy bug fixing,
>> Bernhard
>
>Would it be an idea to make a beta release?

you can checkout the branch any time and we will definitely have
0.9.32-rcs as soon as 0.9.31 is out.