From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20162 invoked by alias); 19 Sep 2013 12:20:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 20139 invoked by uid 89); 19 Sep 2013 12:20:31 -0000 Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:20:31 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFE1B1165BD; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:20:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id lOyTnmTSXuys; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:20:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA27116552; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:20:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1E5D7E030E; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 05:20:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:20:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Tristan Gingold , Richard Sandiford , binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Release 2.24 Message-ID: <20130919122028.GP3132@adacore.com> References: <2741C968-721F-46E9-A2BA-E4B0F64C444B@adacore.com> <20130918213245.GO3132@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-09/txt/msg00670.txt.bz2 > I reckon the original plan was to make the steps in the reverse order so > that there's no pressure from outstanding releases to get the GIT tree in > order, which I found reasonable -- what was the rationale behind changing > the plan? It has somehow escaped me (a list archive reference will do). Pretty much everyone who answered felt that it was more work to keep two systems around for the duration of the branch. In GDB, branches are active for about 6 months, which is a long time, and for Binutils, it is 1 year, I believe. I was the only one who initially did not want to tie the 2 together, but I changed my mind, and decided to wait a bit, and give the full-git approach a shot. -- Joel