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Re: Revised release criteria for GCC 4.0

From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
To: Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>,Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:33:14 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: Revised release criteria for GCC 4.0
References: <20041213174849.694408c3.bkoz@redhat.com> <41BE2DC8.70009@codesourcery.com><200412140122.06988.s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl>

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> In fact I think that getting release criteria so late in stage 3
> is just silly and quite pointless

Since the 4.0 release criteria shall serve as a template for the 4.1
release criteria, I beg to disagree.

> especially now that they are in such a weak form and not very specific.

In that past, we had much stronger criteria but basically ignored them.

The current, weaker set, is something that we hope to be able to really
take seriously.

> 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.

Fully agreed.

Gerald

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