Re: GDB 7.9.90 available for testing

[David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> 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.

I'm not certain if the baselines truly are accurate for all
buildslaves, but it seems strange to create a release when the
buildbot testsuite results show patches causing new failures.

- David