Re: GCC 4.0 Status Report (2005-02-03)

[Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>]

On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:07 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> I respectfully disagree agree with your description of your role as
> RM: "to make decisions that advance the overall state of the compiler".

Umm, each of us has the responsibility to make decisions that advance 
the overall state of the compiler...  including the release manager, 
and the SC.  He manages issues that have a temporal component, usually 
those that relates to a release time line.  Certainly being aware of 
the incoming flow of projects and merges to mainline seems reasonable 
to me.

Decisions that don't have a time component, like, should we add 
Microsoft compatibility, are better left to maintainers and/or SC.  
When that sort of patch can and can't go in, is a RM issue, not really 
a SC issue.  Now, Mark can certainly weigh in, as he is also a global 
writes person.

> It is not your decision to make

Permitting the integration of a development branch into mainline late 
in the release cycle is RM issue, that was one of the major uses of the 
list last time as I understood it.  What he can't do, is block it on RM 
grounds alone early in the release cycle.  And of course the cutoff is, 
roughly speaking, his to make.

I don't think I've said anything that is controversial or disagreeable, 
if it is, hopefully its just due to sloppy wording on my part.