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Re: Release schedule
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- To: S dot Bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl (S. Bosscher)
- Cc: mrs at apple dot com ('Mike Stump '),s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl ('Steven Bosscher '),dje at watson dot ibm dot com ('David Edelsohn '),mark at codesourcery dot com ('Mark Mitchell '),pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at ('Gerald Pfeifer '),gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org ('gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org ')
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:06:47 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Release schedule
Steven Bosscher wrote:
> FWIW I am all *against* freezing dev branches. GCC developers are
> volunteers, and taking away their fun projects is a bad thing.
>
> Still I also think there are too many development projects right now, and I
> also believe that it would be good to plan when these major improvements
> should be finished, no matter how hard that may be in a project that depends
> on the time of volunteers.
I think it's reasonable to *request* folks working on fun projects to
consider turning their attention back to trying to stabilize the release
at critical times in the development cycle, but that it's fruitless to try
to bludgeon them into doing so.