Freeze timing and questions

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 07:00:38 AM +0000 Richard Kenner 
<kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote:

>     Yes.  Let's by all means be flexible; I will not personally jump
>     down anyone's throat about anything here.  On the other hand, as
>     reviewers, let's please try to be conservative, and stay within
>     the spirit of the thing: patches that fix problems in the compiler.
>
> I think we also need to vary things over time.  We should be much more
> likely to consider something that's somewhere between a new feature and a
> bug fix as a bug fix now than we would in five weeks.

No, not really.

We need to start being pretty aggressive *right now* so that on
February 15th the compiler is really pretty close to ready to go.

I've seen what happens here when we're not aggressive, and what happens
is we end up with 400 little, but very important bugs.

If things aren't going well, I'll step in, but I'm hoping that we'll
all just show the professionalism required to fix things by ourselves.

Let's not debate it; let's do it.

GNATS has thousands of bug reports; let's start closing them.

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Mark Mitchell                   mark@codesourcery.com
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