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Re: Prerelease
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: jason at redhat dot com, toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 18:26:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Prerelease
<<We shouldn't act on every regression that surfaces in the last minute
like it should uphold the release.
My take on it is that we should establish a no-later-than date for
release-inhibiting "regressions".
>>
What we do for GNAT is to carefully prepare a release and freeze, and the
issue what we call a candidate release. We fully expect a followup final
release, and we ONLY fix regressions in going from the candidate release
to the final release.