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Re: Bug tracking / Release Quality Assurance
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 08 Oct 2002 04:49:51 +0200
- Subject: Re: Bug tracking / Release Quality Assurance
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0210071753310.21576-100000@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
| Checking the GNATS database which currently shows 62 high priority
| problems, there are some points I'd like to raise:
|
| 1. I believe we should not ship GCC 3.2.1 (or branch 3.3.) until this
| bug count has been significantly reduce.
Agreed.
Seems like, somewhere at some point, our development model failed to
cope with only-bug-or-regression fixes and improving (in the broad
sense) the development branch: Balance interests in fixing bugs and
adding new functionality. Clearly closing all branches won't
automatically make people fixing bugs, but somehow we need to improve
on the current situation.
Maybe more maintainers for some parts of the compilers?
[...]
| 3. We probably need some (further) volunteers who monitor GNATS more
| closely, ask submitters for further information/feedback and ping
| maintainers concerning problems in their areas.
Some maintainers have many things to sort out similtaneously so they
get quickly very busy...
-- Gaby