notes from gcc summit maintenance BOF

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> No, sadly. I'd mentioned a few things to Mark privately. These included:
>
> 1) possibly making a gcc-release mailing list, all maintainers must
> subscribe.

Don't we have gcc-maintainers@gcc.gnu.org?  Jeff created such a list a
few years ago.

> 2) weekly status updates from mark with unique subject lines

That's an excellent idea!  (Not necessarily weekly, but regularily, with
an agenda and relevant TODOs/PRs; yes, that would be great.)

> Anyway. The other big issue with releases is adding some kind of
> technical roadmap versus a strict time-based schedule.

Yup, we really need to focus on some deliverables, and do so earlier
in the release process.

Compile-time improvement probably is the one "killer criteria" for 3.4,
I'd say.

Gerald
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