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Re: GCC Mainline is in Stage 3

From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
To: "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 17 Oct 2003 15:59:59 -0700
Subject: Re: GCC Mainline is in Stage 3
References: <1066405387.25550.25.camel@doubledemon.codesourcery.com><871xtbyftl.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>

"Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> > The GCC mainline is now in Stage 3.
> >
> > Stage 3 is our final stage before branching for a release.  No new
> > functionality should be introduced during this stage; only bug-fixes for
> > existing functionality should be added and approved.
> 
> There are a lot of patches for functionality that are floating around,
> having been submitted well before the deadline, but which have not yet
> been reviewed.  Are these excluded?

Past convention is that if you submitted a patch before the deadline,
then it can still go in, at least up to a point.  (No fair putting in
thousands of lines of new code the day before the release, no matter
when you originally submitted it!)

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>

References:
- GCC Mainline is in Stage 3
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: GCC Mainline is in Stage 3
  - From: Zack Weinberg

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