Re: Meeting Minutes - Office Hours for CTI - 2026-09-18

[Carlos O'Donell via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

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/932cc126-4a9a-4507-9c26-2c13524100d0@redhat.com/

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/91482a3d-3abb-469e-9616-da83559f7e6a@redhat.com/

(which still need to be closed, TODO item for me).

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.