From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Cc: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>
Subject: Re: Accelerating Y2038 glibc fixes
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:32:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190716093229.9DD63240085@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190712072103.D3DBC24003A@gemini.denx.de>
Hi all,
In message <20190712072103.D3DBC24003A@gemini.denx.de> I wrote:
>
> this is a somewhat desperate call for help...
>
> We have been trying for some time to help some of our customers to
> get patches into glibc to fix the remaining Y2038 issues.
>
> But progress is way too slow...
>
> The problems we are facing are not on a technical level - we believe
> we could deal with such.
>
> See for example [1] - there are just 7 lines of "code". But Joseph
> does not accept our patches. The arguments he gives are not on a
> technical level; instead he says that only a native English speaker
> who has a with deep understanding of glibc internals and the
> previous development process will be capable to provide such a patch
> in an acceptable way.
>
> To be honest - I think only himself would fulfill this requirement
> good enough.
>
> But Joseph has not enough resources available, and he cannot
> allocate more resources even if such efforts would be paid for by
> DENX. And he does not know of anyone to help.
>
> In short, we are stuck, and not even proper funding can accelerate
> the process - not to mention, that it's impossible to give any
> deadlines at all.
>
>
> Obviously, this is just my personal and external view - I guess I
> must be missing something, because I cannot imagine that the progress
> of a project that plays such a central role to the whole FOSS
> community suffers from such bottlenecks, and that these cannot be
> helped.
>
> Is there anything we can do to accelerate this process? As
> mentioned, we are willing to dedicate both man-power and/or money,
> if this helps.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1114061/
Is there nobody here who has any idea what could be done?
No comments at all?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-16 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-12 7:21 Accelerating Y2038 glibc fixes Wolfgang Denk
2019-07-16 9:32 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2019-07-16 11:50 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2019-07-16 12:40 ` Wolfgang Denk
2019-07-16 12:44 ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-16 14:52 ` Wolfgang Denk
2019-07-16 15:09 ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-16 15:19 ` Andrew Pinski
2019-07-17 14:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-17 14:41 ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-17 16:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2019-07-17 16:04 ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-17 16:18 ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-07-18 18:53 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-07-18 19:13 ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-18 20:31 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-07-18 21:20 ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-18 22:32 ` Paul Eggert
2019-07-19 7:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-19 3:06 ` Rich Felker
2019-07-19 17:44 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-07-19 19:03 ` Alistair Francis
2019-07-25 20:40 ` Joseph Myers
2019-07-29 17:47 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-07-29 19:58 ` Joseph Myers
2019-07-29 21:00 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-07-29 21:08 ` Joseph Myers
2019-07-29 23:12 ` Paul Eggert
2019-07-29 23:30 ` Joseph Myers
2019-07-17 17:50 ` Rich Felker
2019-07-17 21:57 ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-07-17 22:37 ` Rich Felker
2019-07-18 7:20 ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-07-18 13:35 ` Rich Felker
2019-07-18 14:47 ` Rich Felker
2019-07-18 14:49 ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-18 15:46 ` Rich Felker
2019-07-18 16:43 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-07-20 4:43 ` Rich Felker
2019-07-25 19:54 ` Joseph Myers
2019-07-26 10:39 ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-07-29 18:55 ` Zack Weinberg
2019-07-29 20:12 ` Joseph Myers
2019-07-30 11:02 ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-07-30 12:24 ` Joseph Myers
2019-07-30 14:04 ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-08-09 7:25 ` Lukasz Majewski
[not found] ` <CAKCAbMhOMQ9yTFpy+OQkDvZPPFf_fFn6oSxjvLTaUwC4jpPRag@mail.gmail.com>
2019-08-09 12:32 ` Fwd: " Zack Weinberg
2019-07-30 19:58 ` Joseph Myers
2019-07-30 20:28 ` Florian Weimer
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