Release Quality Control

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:

| On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 07:21:23PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
| > On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Joe Buck wrote:
| > > When the RM puts out a prerelease tarball, this should be interpreted as a
| > > request that the keepers of the secondary platforms do tests, ASAP.
| > 
| > Point is, we do _not_ have a sensible way of allowing people to follow
| > GCC (and be it just for doing this kind of test) without having to keep
| > up with the high volume mailing lists.
| 
| We could set up a special mailing list for the purpose (gcc-prereleases
| or some such).


Is there a reason why gcc-announce will not be appropriate?  

| However, if the secondary platform owners don't follow
| the gcc list, and don't test anything on the CVS branch until the first
| pre-release tarball comes out, I'm afraid that what's going to happen is
| that the code just isn't going to work.

I can't argue with that :-)

-- Gaby