RFC: future gfortran development and subversion

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:06:44PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On 10/19/05, Tobias Schl?ter <tobias.schlueter@physik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> > Steve Kargl wrote:
> > > Now, to my proposal for future gfortran development post 4.1 branching.
> > > When (if) svn becomes the source code revision tool, I propose that all
> > > future work be done solely on mainline.  No individual patches can be
> > > merged into 4.1.  The 4.0 branch will be dead.  Periodically, say bi-weekly
> > > or monthly, we do a merge from mainline into 4.1.  The aim is to keep 4.1
> > > and mainline sufficiently in sync and to minimize the requirements of
> > > additional hardware (except for the day or two required for the merge) and
> > > to maximize our time investment.
> 
> Dude, I hope fortran will, after branching of 4.1, follow the usual rules
> of regression fixes only.  This means development will be on mainline
> only anyways, as for any other language.

Please define regression.

> And occasional backporting of bugfixes should be not a too great burden.

The sky is blue in my world.

> I definitely hope we're not ending up applying large fortran changes to
> a release series again.  (Ok, 4.0 _was_ special ...)

Whatever.

-- 
Steve