heads up: one week to 8.0.1 planned release time

heads up: one week to 8.0.1 planned release time

[Joel Brobecker]

Hello everyone,

The 8.0.1 release is currently planned for next Monday (Sep 4th).
I took a look at the list of PRs still open, and only found one
which wasn't a regressions, so I do not consider it blocking.

I also looked at the list of PRs fixed since 8.0. It must have been
a very good release, since we only fixed 5 PRs since then!

Anything blocking that we need to be aware of?

Assuming nothing comes up, should we go ahead with the 8.0.1 release
next week, or do we want to wait a bit to see if we can find other
issues we might want to fix before 8.0.1 comes out? (personally,
I would go ahead with the 8.0.1, with the option of scheduling
8.0.2 if we end up finding something we really want for the 8.0.x
branch; otherwise, 8.1 will be a mere 3 months later).

Thanks!
-- 
Joel

Re: heads up: one week to 8.0.1 planned release time

[Simon Marchi]

Hi Joel,

On 2017-08-28 03:50 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> The 8.0.1 release is currently planned for next Monday (Sep 4th).
> I took a look at the list of PRs still open, and only found one
> which wasn't a regressions, so I do not consider it blocking.

Were you talking about #21827 ?  If so I think it's a regression.
Either way, I pushed the proposed patch to both master and gdb-8.0-branch.

> I also looked at the list of PRs fixed since 8.0. It must have been
> a very good release, since we only fixed 5 PRs since then!
> 
> Anything blocking that we need to be aware of?

Yao found recently that remote multi-arch exec was broken, see this thread:

  https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00488.html

I filed a PR:

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22021

and added it to the "maybe" list.  I have posted a series to fix it
in the thread, it just needs some reviewing :)

> Assuming nothing comes up, should we go ahead with the 8.0.1 release
> next week, or do we want to wait a bit to see if we can find other
> issues we might want to fix before 8.0.1 comes out? (personally,
> I would go ahead with the 8.0.1, with the option of scheduling
> 8.0.2 if we end up finding something we really want for the 8.0.x
> branch; otherwise, 8.1 will be a mere 3 months later).
> 
> Thanks!

Fine with me, assuming we can get this multi-arch exec issue sorted out
by then (or decide it's not important enough).

Simon

Re: heads up: one week to 8.0.1 planned release time

[Joel Brobecker]

> > The 8.0.1 release is currently planned for next Monday (Sep 4th).
> > I took a look at the list of PRs still open, and only found one
> > which wasn't a regressions, so I do not consider it blocking.
> 
> Were you talking about #21827 ?  If so I think it's a regression.

Not that one, no. It was sim/20863, which was already failing in
GDB 7.12.

> Either way, I pushed the proposed patch to both master and gdb-8.0-branch.

(y)

> Yao found recently that remote multi-arch exec was broken, see this thread:
> 
>   https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00488.html
> 
> I filed a PR:
> 
>   https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22021
> 
> and added it to the "maybe" list.  I have posted a series to fix it
> in the thread, it just needs some reviewing :)

OK - thanks for the heads up. Jan also just sent a patch for 8.0.1
as well. I'll keep an eye on those, and hold the release a bit to
give the patches some additional time if needed.

Thank you!
-- 
Joel

Re: heads up: one week to 8.0.1 planned release time

[Simon Marchi]

On 2017-08-31 09:48 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> OK - thanks for the heads up. Jan also just sent a patch for 8.0.1
> as well. I'll keep an eye on those, and hold the release a bit to
> give the patches some additional time if needed.

The patchset for PR 22021 is pushed.

Simon