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Re: Error on the development plan web page?
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Erik Schnetter <schnetter at uni-tuebingen dot de>
- Cc: gcc at gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:09:45 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Error on the development plan web page?
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Erik Schnetter wrote:
> The web page http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html, which contains the GCC
> Development plan, has in the third paragraph of the section
> "Development Methodology / Schedule / Rationale" the text
>
> "[...] a branch will have to be maintained for four months. During two
> of those months, the only mainline changes will be bug-fixes [...]"
>
> I do not see how this follows from the previous text (and the text
> further down in the section "Release Methodology"). It seems to me
> that the release branch would have to be maintained for six months,
> because releases are scheduled every six months.
I'm a bit astonished that nobody has replied to this yet, but I believe
there is a misunderstanding: "branch", in that part of the document,
refers to development branches (such as the new C++ parser) not release
branches.
You are right in that release branches usually will have to be maintained
for (at least) six months.
Perhaps we should differentiate between "development branches" and
"release branches"? Opinions?
Gerald
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