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Re: [RFC] Our release cycles are getting longer
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:59:42 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Our release cycles are getting longer
- References: <45B69212.10903@redhat.com>
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Diego Novillo wrote:
There was some discussion on IRC that I would like to move to the
mailing list so that we get a wider discussion. There's been thoughts
about skipping 4.2 completely, or going to an extended Stage 3, etc.
Thoughts?
I believe that going forward we should not branch for a release unless
we have a very clear plan, that is "We need to address these four bugs
and potential true blockers/evil regressions that are found before we
release", with a time horizon of maybe two weeks.
Either the release is nearly in shape, then we can branch, or it is
not, in which case we will have a starving release branch for too long
and most focus on Stage 1.
(At least this is the impression that I got; YMMV.)
Gerald