Re: Fwd: The GNU C Library version 2.28 is now available

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

"By the way": very much yay! for "Building and running on GNU/Hurd
systems now works without out-of-tree patches".  Big thank you to Samuel
for driving this effort!  :-D


On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 22:18:53 +0200, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> 
wrote:
> David Michael, le mer. 01 août 2018 18:59:25 -0400, a ecrit:
> > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:10 PM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> 
> > wrote:
> > > For more invasive changes, it would make sense to have a
> > > branch in the hurd repo with normal, non-topgit, cherry-picks.

ACK.  Though, we should consider: who will be using that branch, that is,
who are we maintaining it for?

> > Okay, that makes sense.  I'd be interested to try such a branch and
> > see how it works out (once new Hurd patches are available, of course).
> > If you would like help maintaining it, I'm not currently in the
> > Savannah project, but my username is dm0 there in case it can be given
> > permission.  I'd assume the branch would follow the usual rule of
> > other projects' stable branches, where only cherry-picks of patches
> > already applied in master are allowed.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> Thomas, could you add his login so he can help with it?

Done, thanks!


Grüße
 Thomas