consequence of 4.0 release branch?

[Thomas Koenig]

Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Toon Moene wrote:

> >What are the conditions for fixes to gfortran on the 4.0 branch ?
> >
> >1. Any regressions from earlier gfortran snapshots.
> >2. Any regressions from g77.
> >3. Any bugfix.
 
> What do you and the other Fortran maintainers think is most appropriate?
 
> I think my inclination would be (3) in this release, and (1) in future 
> releases.

I agree (and I am glad to hear it).

What does this mean for testing patches?  Does a fortran patch
require testing for both mainline and the release branch?  I'll
dig around the docs to find how to check out the release branch...