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Re: GCC 4.4 Branch Created
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:20:35AM +0100, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> wrote:
> > >> I have done this, and applied this patch to reflect that submitting a
> > >> snapshot to the TP is not necessary after creating a release branch if one
> > >> was submitted during stage 3 or 4 (now we have a long stabilisation period
> > >> on trunk and a comparatively short one on the branch before release,
> > >> submitting one from trunk is the right approach).
> > >
> > > Stage 4 needs to be documented on http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html then.
> >
> > Technically Stage 4 is the same as release branch status (just without branching
> > before). But indeed, we should update develop.html - does this need to go via
> > the SC?
>
> We should probably drop current Stage 2 and just rename Stage 3 to Stage 2
> and Stage 4 to Stage 3 as well, I think this model worked very well in 4.4.
If we do this make sure to update branching.html and translation.html
where I recently inserted references to "stage 3 or 4".
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