Re: Revised release criteria for GCC 4.0

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 December 2004 01:03, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> (on compile time not in the criteria...)
>
> > Partly, that's because this isn't something that's easy to fix right
> > before a release.  If you want to fix it, you have to deal with it
> > during the earlier development stages, when there's more flux.
>
>
> Then release criteria should be available before stage3, and more
> people would have to care about it.  Probably the latter is a bit
> more important (volunteers, blahblah).
> In fact I think that getting release criteria so late in stage 3
> is just silly and quite pointless, especially now that they are in
> such a weak form and not very specific.

I agree; we should have done this earlier.  Several people still 
requested it, so I think "pointless" is too strong a statement, but I 
agree that it is less pointful than it would have been done had we done 
it earlier. :-)

> For 4.0 there isn't anything that can be done about it; but could
> the SC/RM set release criteria for 4.1 early on in the development
> cycle?  I really liked the projects list that Mark did before we
> went into stage3.

Yes, we'll be doing that in Stage 1 for 4.1.

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