On 9/24/26 11:15 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 2026-09-22 15:02, Andrea Pinski wrote:
Also why NOT just one email list? Why 6 mailing lists? What is the
need for glibc-stable?
DJ already answered this; glibc-stable is actively used by downstream
developers. I won't object if there's consensus towards folding it
into libc-alpha, but that would mean dozens of additional (likely
irrelevant for others) messages on the list. That said though, I do
like the idea of the original patch and backports all living in the
same list, ideally with a `References` tag linking them up since that
would make processing them so much easier, especially for security
fixes.
We had an on-list discussion *specifically* about this topic in May 2026.
"[RFC] How many mailing lists does glibc need or use? Closing 4 lists."
https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/[email protected]/
I received feedback from Collin, and Arjun.
Then again to discuss closing some lists:
"[RFC] Closing libc-locales and glibc-bugs-regex mailing lists at the end of June
2026."
https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/[email protected]/
(which still need to be closed, TODO item for me).
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Cheers,
Carlos.
