Re: Release criteria (was: PATCH for Re: Solaris 8/SPARC bootstrapbroken building 64-bit libgcc)

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 07:48, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> [ gcc->gcc-patches, Cc: trimmed ]
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Rainer Orth wrote:
> > Besides, aside from news.html (with a link to gcc-3.1/criteria.html), there
> > seems to be no link to any of those criteria.html files at all ;-(  They
> > certainly need to be linked somewhere so this information is not only found
> > by accident.
> 
> I intentionally didn't link any criterial.html file from a prominent place
> because it was clear (to me) that the criteria were not really up-to-date
> and we were not taking them really serious as far as performing the various
> tests are concerned.
> 
> That's something we should revisit for 3.4 after 3.3.1 is out the door,
> and in fact I suspect that Mark will want to suggest some updated criteria
> for GCC 3.4, so I think we ought to defer the creating of
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/criteria.html
> until then.

I agree.

I think those criteria are good, but think that the reality is that we
do not have sufficient resources to meet those criteria.  We should come
up with a scaled-back version that represents something that we can do
with the resources that we have available.

The good news is that high bandwidth and our open model are getting us a
lot of testing.  That, together with the *very* good triage work being
done by people processing incoming bugzilla data, is giving me a lot
more confidence in the quality of our software.

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Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
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