> How likely is a Ethiopian sale in the short term? <br><br>Ethiopia is going to be one of the launch countries, unless negotiations between the Prodi government and Ethiopia somehow go awry.<br><br>-walter<br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 10/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John (J5) Palmieri</b> <<a href="mailto:johnp@redhat.com">johnp@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:46 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:<br>> John,<br>><br>> to enable the am_ET locale, we need a few glibc bugfixes<br>> from F8. Ulrich Drepper, the glibc maintainer, says a<br>> backport would be quite invasive and highly recommends
<br>> updating instead. Additionally, until now glibc wasn't<br>> forked in OLPC-2.<br>><br>> I installed 2.6.90-17 and everything appears to work, but<br>> of course it would need more testing.<br>>
<br>> So I propose we update glibc post Trial-3. If that's not<br>> acceptable, the alternatives I see are:<br>><br>> 1) attempt a backport and fork glibc. That would give us a<br>> good excuse to enable the Geode optimizations too.
<br>><br>> 2) Leave Ethiopian as an unsopported language in FD1.0 and<br>> tell people to follow the procedure on the wiki to add it<br>> manuall<br><br><br>This is a business decision. How likely is a Ethiopian sale in the
<br>short term? Does it pay right now to get distracted by Ethiopian<br>support (other than planning for the future) or concentrate more on the<br>places we are shipping? Talk to Uli and find out if he knows of any<br>interactions with other libraries. If the risk is low and the benefits
<br>high then go for it. However for FRS 1.0 I suspect it would be best to<br>not make this change.<br><br>--<br>John (J5) Palmieri <<a href="mailto:johnp@redhat.com">johnp@redhat.com</a>><br><br>_______________________________________________
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