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Re: Should there be a GCC 4.0.1 release quickly?
- From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>,Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 11:21:49 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Should there be a GCC 4.0.1 release quickly?
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Hi,
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> I'd rather not rush to a 4.0.1 release.
I'm a fan of release early, release often. Really. Even if this means we
would end up with a 4.0.20 after half a year. Basically I can think of
only one reason _not_ to release after a critical bug is fixed. That
reason is a very good one, it is resources. Resources to prepare the
release, write announcement, testbuild the RC tarballs, and so on.
But given the resource constraints I think one should release as often as
possible. Every two weeks after serious bugs are fixed seems not
unreasonable to me. I realize that is extreme, but I still think it makes
sense. Certainly I feel that the planned two months until 4.0.1 are much
too long for the number of critical bugs 4.0.0 had.
Ciao,
Michael.