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Re: Closing the GCC 4.0 branch (was: Build snapshots according to a more regular schedule)
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- To: gerald at pfeifer dot com (Gerald Pfeifer)
- Cc: Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM (Joe Buck), iant at google dot com (Ian Lance Taylor), dje at watson dot ibm dot com (David Edelsohn), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 15:02:00 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Closing the GCC 4.0 branch (was: Build snapshots according to a more regular schedule)
>
> [ omitting gcc-patches ]
>
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Joe Buck wrote:
> > I'd like to see it closed. We have some bugs that are only open
> > because they are targeted for 4.0.4 (fixed on all branches but 4_0).
>
> If there is consensus, I'll be happy to take the appropriate steps,
> which include:
>
> 1. Updating our web pages
> 2. Sending a notification to the gcc list
> 3. Running a final snapshot (so that we have a tarball matching
> the head of that tree)
> 4. Stopping the snapshot mechanism
>
> How about waiting ten days, say, see whether anyone has substantial
> objections, and proceed as noted above? (We are usually operating
> on Internet time, but giving people more than a week is fair, I think.)
I am willing to be the release manager for 4.0.4 if nobody else
steps up to the base for this.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski