Freeze timing and questions

[Mark Mitchell]

> So far, we have been advertising that Ada *will* be part of 3.1, on the
> website, in both index.html and frontends.html.  Of course, we can say it
> will be part of the release but not of the release criteria (as for Java
> in 3.0) and warn it may not work on all the important platforms.

I did not recollect that; it appears I spoke out of turn.

I do think it makes a lot of sense to treat Ada like Java in 3.0.

There is nothing to benchmark it against in terms of FSF releases

I think we should have Ada:

 - Not part of the release criteria

 - Off by default

 - Leave changes at the sole discretion of the Ada team, so long as
   they don't affect the rest of the code.

Ideally, this release will provide feedback about the FSF Ada compiler,
and we can then fix problems and turn it on by default in the 3.2
series.

That's my opinion, and not a binding decision.

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