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Re: Release Quality Control
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 07:21:23PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Joe Buck wrote:
> > When the RM puts out a prerelease tarball, this should be interpreted as a
> > request that the keepers of the secondary platforms do tests, ASAP.
>
> Point is, we do _not_ have a sensible way of allowing people to follow
> GCC (and be it just for doing this kind of test) without having to keep
> up with the high volume mailing lists.
We could set up a special mailing list for the purpose (gcc-prereleases
or some such). However, if the secondary platform owners don't follow
the gcc list, and don't test anything on the CVS branch until the first
pre-release tarball comes out, I'm afraid that what's going to happen is
that the code just isn't going to work. If people don't get involved
earlier than that, bitrot sets in and the code breaks.