Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline

[Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>]

On Saturday 17 January 2004 14:37, Richard Kenner wrote:
>     If we want to develop a GCC 3.5 release without Tree-SSA, then we
>     should have specific, non-SSA feature goals that we want to
>     accomplish.  Otherwise, what is the benefit of GCC 3.5 over additional
>     point releases of GCC 3.4 stable branch?
>
> I don't understand your point.  Since GCC is a volunteer project, there is
> no practical way of forming such "goals" or schedules.  We presume, unless
> there's evidence to the contrary that people are going to be working on
> improvements to GCC into the future.

That is what everyone is saying every time somebody suggests we should
have goals for the next release.

Result: everyone just starts hacking without any form of plan, and we
end up with lots of half-finished efforts.

It is OK to say: "For this release our goals are...".  Get a good number
of people (volunteers) to agree on that, and you can make those goals.
Do nothing, and nothing happens.

Gr.
Steven