GCC Status (2004-08-09)

[Mark Mitchell]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:

>Richard Kenner wrote:
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>>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.
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>Another solution that have been proposed in the past is to alternate Stage 2
>and Stage 3 every other week. Of course, there has to be some kind of
>commitment on actually *working* on bug fixing during the Stage 3 weeks,
>otherwise this is going to slow down things, instead of helping making mainline
>stable faster.
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That is exactly my concern.   It also means that we have to make sure 
everyone remembers these switches back-and-forth, and people are going 
to complain when their patch doesn't get submitted/reviewed until Monday 
and now it's temporarily stage 3, and so the patch can't go in for a week.

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