Re: Mis-handled ColdFire submission?

[Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>]

On Jan 12, 2007, at 4:35 AM, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> The major chunk of this reworking has been blocked from going into  
> mainline because GCC was in stages 2 & 3 for much of this year.

Yeah, spending large amounts of time in stage2 and 3 does have  
disadvantages.  I'd rather have people that have regressions spend a  
year at a time in stage2-3...  :-(  Maybe we should have trunk be  
stage1, and then snap over to a stage2 branch when the stage1  
compiler is ready to begin stage2, and likewise, when the stage2  
compiler is ready to go to stage3, it then snaps to the release  
branch.  This gives a place for the preintegration of stage1 level  
work when ever that work is ready, without having to delay it for  
months at a time.

Another possibility is to use the next unreleased major release  
branch as stage 2, and the current major release branch as  
essentially stage3, with trunk remaining stage1.

Then the work doesn't need to wait for the right stage, rather, the  
work is Oked for the stage it is suitable for.

I've not spent much time thinking about this, this is just off the  
cuff, but, I thought I would post it as 9 months in  stage2-3 seems  
like a long time to me.