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Re: Criteria for GCC 4.0
Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> > What is wrong with trying to communicate better? Doing so would
> > benefit everyone.
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 02:45:57PM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
> Perhaps there's a concern that it will become an extra imposition on
> GCCers.
I don't think that's a factor. Way back when we started egcs, we were
firm on conducting as much business in public as possible. (Yes, there's
the steering committee list, but it often goes two weeks at a time without
a single message).
If someone wants to start a GCC analog to kerneltrap, more power to them.
> Another cause for concern that I can see is that unscrupulous people
> may try to use the channel in the opposite direction, for instance to
> try to order GCCers not to start using tree-ssa unless some little bit
> of code works perfectly. Of course we don't have to follow their
> orders, but the increase in traffic, responding to semi-informed mail,
> etc, will tend to suck up hacking cycles.
I'm certainly open to arguments from people who want to claim that some
GCC deficiency is release-critical, as long as they are willing to provide
high-quality Bugzilla reports. Of course we might have to decide to ship
anyway.