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Re: GCC 3.1 Release
On Saturday 13 April 2002 05:25, Toon Moene wrote:
> Neil Booth wrote:
> > Mark Mitchell wrote:-
> >
> > > I have a proposal before the SC to slip the GCC 3.2 schedule even
> > > further; so that the first phase of GCC 3.2 development will now end
> > > one month beyond the release of GCC 3.1 -- June 1st -- pushing the
> > > GCC 3.2 release date back to October 1st so as to give people time to
> > > work on major changes for GCC 3.2 *after* GCC 3.1 is released.
> >
> > IMO this is still too short; I think there should be two months after
> > the previous release for the first phase, giving us an 8-month cycle
> > instead of a 6-month one.
>
> The problem with Mark's "mental model" of the release process is that
> bug fixing doesn't screech to a grinding halt the moment 3.1 is out.
>
> Because then a whole group of "new" testers comes along and finds new
> bugs that we (and our "regular" testers) haven't found. For 3.0 this
> effect was so bad that basically only the 3.0.4 release can be described
> as "generally useful".
>
Perhaps I misunderstand, but it appears that the primary effort with gcc-3.1
is to cut down the regressions from earlier versions. After release, more
testers will be seeing the bugs in the new features, including those which
are already reported but not fixed because they are not regressions.
--
Tim Prince