Plans for 3.3 series

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis has agreed to serve as RM for 3.3.3, freeing Mark Mitchell
| to focus on the 3.4 release.  We were going to delay announcing this until
| next week, since Gaby will have a chance to meet with Mark in person on
| Monday to discuss plans, but since it seems that some people were taking
| actions based on the assumption that there wouldn't be a 3.3.3, I thought
| that I would go ahead and announce this.
| 
| This repeats what we did for the 3.2.x series: Gaby was RM for the
| 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 releases, while Mark handled the earlier ones.
| 
| Thanks, Gaby.  Detailed information about the 3.3.3 process will come out
| next week, after Gaby and Mark have had a chance to discuss it.

Thanks, Joe.

We just had a "GCC dinner" here in Kona, with lots of wishes/dreams
for GCC :-). 

   My plan for the 3.3 series is to have regular releases every 3
months until some indeterminate point in the future, that
indeterminate point being after - at least - two releases from the 3.4
branch.  After that indeterminate point, I'll make 2 releases every 6
months with no official announcements.  And after that, I will probably
close the branch depending on the situation of 3.4.x at that time.
The idea behind that is to give distributors and packagers a chance to
build from a regularly released "official 3.3.x tree" that have 3.3 ABI.

The tentative release date for GCC-3.3.3 is set January 31th.

Thanks,

-- Gaby