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Re: [wwwdocs] SH 4.8 changes update
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Oleg Endo <oleg.endo@t-online.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 21:43 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, Oleg Endo wrote:
>> > Thanks. Let's hope that I can squeeze in some more stuff while
>> > stage 1 lasts. :T
>>
>> You know that for backend-specific changes (especially for "smaller"
>> ports) you actually have some more leeway?
>
> You mean, since SH is neither a primary nor a secondary platform, there
> are no particular release criteria for it? What does that actually
> mean?
It means that release managers do not care about the state of the SH port.
It means SH target maintainers have to watch how the release goes and
decide when to put effort into testing and fixing bugs themselves, otherwise
they may run into the situation that the SH port does not even build for
the release. So kind of target maintainers for ports that are not primary
or secondary are their own release managers without any control over
release timing.
Richard.