Re: Backporting, was: Re: [PATCH, libgfortran] PR24794 namelist input of character array]

[Janne Blomqvist <jblomqvi at cc dot hut dot fi>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:34:18AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> IMHO, 4.0 should be left alone after 4.1 is released.  We, the gfortran
> developers, simply don't have enough man power for 2 branches and
> mainline.

> Mainline and 4.1 are in sync.  I think we should try to maintain
> this for as long as possible.  The biggest change coming in mainline
> with major implications for gfortran is openmp.  When the openmp
> infrastructure is meged into mainline, I think that is where we will
> again diverge unless rth, Diego, and Jakub backport all of openmp to
> 4.1.

Hopefully wisened from the recent breakage in 4.1 due to the thread
safety patches, IMHO we should at least wait a few days before merging
from trunk.

As for what to do wrt the branches, FWIW IMHO after 4.1 is released we
do a 4.1 -> 4.0 backport of as much as possible, then put both 4.0 and
4.1 in regression fix mode only.

But anyway, this particular bikeshed discussion has come up many times
before, and we never seems to reach any consensus, so I propose that
we lock up our maintainers in a room and let them decide (and, beer
only after we see the white smoke).

-- 
Janne Blomqvist

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