Mainline now closed to all changes which do not fix regressions

[Adriaan van Os]

Mark Mitchell wrote:

> As previously announced, here:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-10/msg00093.html
>
> the mainline is now subject to the usual release-branch rules: only
> fixes for regressions.

The development rules at <http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#stage3> use 
the word "bug", not the word "regression". Should I conclude that the 
rules have silently been changed or is this simply a sympton of a 
complete lack of interest in bugs that are not "regressions" ?

Note by the way that Wikipedia 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_testing> uses the full term 
"regression bug".

> The goal is to quickly reduce the current 219 oustanding regressions
> against 4.1 to approximately 100 -- in part by me retargeting some of
> the bugs -- so that we can create the 4.1 release branch.

So, we have come to the point that not only old (and very old) bugs are 
retargeted (if they were ever targeted at all), but also the new 
"regression" bugs ? Sic transit gloria mundi ! Interestingly, one could 
argue that a retargeted (and thus unfixed) regression bug is no longer 
a regression bug, because it no longer "previously worked" ....

Sincerely,

Adriaan van Os