From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12716 invoked by alias); 23 Nov 2017 17:32:43 -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 12688 invoked by uid 89); 23 Nov 2017 17:32:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KB_WAM_FROM_NAME_SINGLEWORD,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=thanksgiving, calendar X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:32:40 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D61967F7C2; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn04.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.4]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 335A260F89; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: time to create the GDB 8.1.x branch? To: Joel Brobecker References: <20171120191510.clz2ywdyknuftzrh@adacore.com> <20171123165008.hurbxfju2s27qhbk@adacore.com> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: <8f0b5d0f-40a7-b3eb-89c8-bdd672d8046a@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:32:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171123165008.hurbxfju2s27qhbk@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-11/txt/msg00568.txt.bz2 On 11/23/2017 04:50 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> Can we consider delaying the branching some more time? E.g., at least >> a week? I'm not certain I'll be able to address all of Keith's comments >> on the wildmatching series this week (and I'd very much like to get it in >> because the sooner we have that in a release, the sooner we can move >> gdb to a C++ namespace), and also, a lot of folks in the US are off for >> thanksgiving this week (including Keith :-). There are a few other pending >> patches that I'd like to try to get in (patches that have already been posted >> but are waiting for review, e.g., DWARF5 indexes, Keith's inline >> breakpoint and ptype patches, etc.), and next Monday is just looking too >> tight. > > Absolutely. > > There are a number of patches that people would like to get in, and > I won't create the branch until I have at least given those a chance > to get in. Using the branch to help us decide which changes we want > to focus is good, but I don't want people to feel pressured into > rush them and/or cutting corners. The calendar is only a reference > for us, but other than that, we only create the branch when we feel > this is a good time. > Thanks Joel. I'll keep you posted. Thanks, Pedro Alves