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Re: Fortran patch committed during freeze


Roger Sayle wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Mark Mitchell wrote:
However, please be mindful of the release branch freeze state in future.

One comment I would make though, is how difficult it is to discover the 4.1 branch's current status. Neither the main page's "Current release status" at http://gcc.gnu.org/ nor the most recently linked to status e-mail from that page explicitly mention the/a freeze. When reviewing/approving a recent regression patch I had to infer that since there was mention of a release candidate but there hadn't been a full release, we were most likely frozen. The 4.0 branch, however, is clearly marked as frozen.

I'll further note that it would really be useful to cc the fortran email list on announcements of branch freezes and the like, given that many (probably most) of the Fortran maintainers and contributors don't monitor the patches and devel lists. Usually someone happens to notice and forwards a copy of the announcement over, but I think that got overlooked this time, with predictable results.


- Brooks (adding a cc to fortran@ on this message as well)


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