This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
RE: Release schedule
- From: "S. Bosscher" <S dot Bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>
- To: 'Mike Stump ' <mrs at apple dot com>,'Steven Bosscher ' <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>
- Cc: 'David Edelsohn ' <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>,'Mark Mitchell ' <mark at codesourcery dot com>,'Gerald Pfeifer ' <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>,"'gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org '" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:46:28 +0200
- Subject: RE: Release schedule
On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 02:21 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>>> Because of the overlap between releases and development, GCC
>>> developers are forced to make a choice
>>
>> Yes, and closing development branches in the weeks before branching
>> would "help" them make the choice ;-)
>
> Or it would drive them back underground, where they were in the past.
yeah yeah I know, this was meant to be sarcasm, note the smiley...
FWIW I am all *against* freezing dev branches. GCC developers are
volunteers, and taking away their fun projects is a bad thing.
Still I also think there are too many development projects right now, and I
also believe that it would be good to plan when these major improvements
should be finished, no matter how hard that may be in a project that depends
on the time of volunteers.
Greetz
Steven