glibc bugs affecting Ethiopian

[Walter Bender]

>  How likely is a Ethiopian sale in the short term?

Ethiopia is going to be one of the launch countries, unless negotiations
between the Prodi government and Ethiopia somehow go awry.

-walter

On 10/8/07, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:46 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > to enable the am_ET locale, we need a few glibc bugfixes
> > from F8.  Ulrich Drepper, the glibc maintainer, says a
> > backport would be quite invasive and highly recommends
> > updating instead.  Additionally, until now glibc wasn't
> > forked in OLPC-2.
> >
> > I installed 2.6.90-17 and everything appears to work, but
> > of course it would need more testing.
> >
> > So I propose we update glibc post Trial-3.  If that's not
> > acceptable, the alternatives I see are:
> >
> > 1) attempt a backport and fork glibc.  That would give us a
> >    good excuse to enable the Geode optimizations too.
> >
> > 2) Leave Ethiopian as an unsopported language in FD1.0 and
> >    tell people to follow the procedure on the wiki to add it
> >    manuall
>
>
> This is a business decision.  How likely is a Ethiopian sale in the
> short term?  Does it pay right now to get distracted by Ethiopian
> support (other than planning for the future) or concentrate more on the
> places we are shipping?  Talk to Uli and find out if he knows of any
> interactions with other libraries.  If the risk is low and the benefits
> high then go for it.  However for FRS 1.0 I suspect it would be best to
> not make this change.
>
> --
> John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>
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