Anyone for slush?

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com
Sat Sep 19 14:27:00 GMT 2009


Dave Korn wrote:
> NightStrike wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Dave Korn
>> <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>>  Should we perhaps, again?  I'm having trouble fixing one bootstrap-breaking
>>> bug because of a second one that's piled in on top of it right now; how is it
>>> for other targets?
>>>
>>>    cheers,
>>>      DaveK
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> What is slush?
>>     
>
>   A phase of development when we stop adding new code and merging new features
> for a while and go into bug-fix only mode to let trunk stabilise when there
> are significant numbers of high-impact open PRs impeding the smooth progress
> of development.
>
>   From the lack of a response I'd guess that most of the maintainers around
> this morning are finding HEAD to be in a reasonably workable state for
> whatever they're doing right now.
>
>   
I need to get run baseline test results on 4.3 and 4.4 for C and
C++.  But the GNAT/RTEMS Ada results show a large number of
failures on the head that were not present in 4.3 and 4.4. 

SPARC and MIPS went from 2 to 319
x86 went from about 20 (mostly qemu issues) to 225

I emailed the list about it but given the number of
introduced failures and the fact the SPARC and MIPS
have the same failures, it leads me to believe something
is broken on the head.

So I would be +1.

--joel



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