Re: Upstreaming the glibc Hurd port

[Samuel Thibault]

Joseph Myers, on jeu. 18 janv. 2018 16:47:55 +0000, wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> > Joseph Myers, on jeu. 18 janv. 2018 15:34:56 +0000, wrote:
> > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > Coding standards can be worked on by anybody, this is really something
> > > > that bug-hurd people can unload us from.
> > > 
> > > Which is also something that having a branch with the patches is helpful 
> > > for -
> > 
> > Well, we already have that on
> > 
> > git clone git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/hurd/glibc.git/
> > 
> > with almost a hundred branches to be looked after...
> 
> A hundred branches with many different purposes is not something at all 
> convenient for glibc people to look over!

That's why I meant work is needed to sort out what we want to show
people. Which takes triaging time, back to square 0. I sent to the
bug-hurd list the list of patches which was enough at some point to get
glibc buildable, that's what should be worked on and what I plan to
commit to a single branch on the upstream repo.

Samuel