Re: GDB 7.9.90 available for testing

Joel Brobecker
2015-07-09T23:21:48Z

> Why should GDB 7.10 be considered ready for release with the large
> number of regressions shown by the GDB Buildbot? The buildbot only
> recently was created and shows numerous regressions on almost all
> architectures relative to when the buildslave started running.

I don't follow the Buildbot day to day, unfortunately, and there are
many configurations; so I rely on everyone with regular emails on
this list to help me determine whether there might be issues blocking
for (1) cutting the branch, and (2) making the official release.
We keep the list on a wiki page that helps us track identified issues
for each release. For instance, for 7.10, we have:
https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB_7.10_Release
As you can see, very little has been reported.

I am happy holding the creation of the official release up for
however long it would take to analyze the buildBot failures,
and to fix all blocking issues. Honestly, given the traffic seen
here derived from issues found by the buildBot, I thought that
people were already keeping an eye on the results.

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Joel