Re: [RFC] Our release cycles are getting longer

[Brooks Moses <brooks dot moses at codesourcery dot com>]

Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> A trivial by nature change like the
> top level build of libgcc took actually years to come by.

I'm not sure how much that's inherently evidence that it was 
inappropriately difficult to do, though.

For example, the quite trivial change of having "make pdf" support for 
creating decently usable PDF documentation also took quite a number of 
years to come by, counting from the first messages I found in the list 
archives that suggested that it would be a good idea.  However, I think 
I spent less than eight hours total on implementing it, testing it, 
getting it through the necessary red tape for approval, and committing 
the final patch.  There weren't any technical difficulties in the way at 
all.

- Brooks