Re: Release Quality Control

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

David Taylor <dtaylor at emc dot com> writes:

| > Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:24:42 -0700
| > From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
| > 
| > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 06:47:31PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
| > > On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > > >| We could set up a special mailing list for the purpose (gcc-prereleases
| > > >| or some such).
| > > > Is there a reason why gcc-announce will not be appropriate?
| > > 
| > > Well, actually... Let's try it, for the next snapshot?
| > 
| > Maybe we could start it for the 3.3 release process.  It would need to
| > be widely announced, and we'd need to come up with an appropriate blurb
| > to set people's expectations correctly: that the tarballs being announced
| > are prereleases for testing, don't use them for production; that there is
| > no commitment to delaying the actual release if problems are found on
| > non-primary platforms, etc.
| 
| If you're going to wait, may I suggest what gdb does?  Create a low
| volume list for that explicit purpose?
| 
| . GDB has a low volume list gdb-testers, announcements of pre-releases
|   are sent there as well as being sent other places.

This pretty much matches what Joe was initially proposing before I
mentioned re-using gcc-announce.  It seems like there is a precendent,
so I'm going to withdraw my gcc-announce proposal.

-- Gaby