GCC Status (2004-08-09)

[Mark Mitchell]

Richard Kenner wrote:

>    I would also strongly suggest that we not go into stage 3 before we've
>    decided on *achievable* release criteria.  I would not like to see a
>    situation where we go into stage 3 because we've passed an arbitrary
>    deadline, and then stay there for many months because of unachievable
>    targets for branching.
>
>I have a similar concern.  Lots of people are away in August, so September 5
>is very close.  There are a lot of major pieces that are planned to be
>committed in the next few weeks and it would be good to be able to spend some
>time on cleanup issues that inevitably come up after that many pieces go in.
>  
>
What are those pieces?

>Maybe a possibility would be a sort of stage 2.5 where we don't allow any new
>features, but allow cleanup changes in addition to the normal 3 stage
>commits.
>  
>
Stage 3 permits bug fixes, so as long as the cleanup changes are 
advancing the fixing of some bug this isn't a problem.

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