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Re: Fix ctan, ctanh overflow (bug 11521)


On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 00:25:46 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > I *do* think we should have more NEWS entries when someone adds
> > something new and we name them there.
> 
> FWIW the release checklist <http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release>
> has a point I put there "Shortly before the release, look for any
> significant user-visible changes not mentioned in the NEWS file and add
> them to that file.".

We should do it once we make major changes and review before the release 
IMO.

> David S. Miller's SPARC optimizations are certainly worth a mention for
> 2.16, I don't know what else that isn't currently there (x32 support
> should obviously be mentioned if it's finished by 2.16).  Much of the
> work for the past couple of months has been dealing with some of the
> large backlog of open bugs, rather than adding new features - and
> generally of course it's good to be conservative about new features -
> maybe some general summary of bug fixes that's more readable than the
> list of bug numbers should be added alongside the list of bug numbers? 
> Quite a bit of other work has been infrastructural cleanups rather than
> things visible to users of glibc.

I wouldn't do this for every bugfix but for major ones that are noticed.

Especially, once you've committed your last libm patch, I suggest to add an 
entry to the NEWS summarizing the many bugfixes.

Andreas
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