Re: RFC: gdb-7.12 timeframe?

[Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It's been almost 6 months since we started our previous release
> cycle, so now is a good time to consider whether or not we feel
> we have enough goodies to start a new process.
>
> We have two questions to answer:
>
>   1. When to start the process (ie stabilize master and create
>      the release branch);
>
>   2. What timeframe to shoot for in terms of the 7.12 release.
>
> The part that worries me is that we're about to enter the month
> of Aug, which is traditionally a very slow month due to summer
> holidays.
>
> What I would like to propose is we try to create the branch soon.
> This means we make a call for blocking issues before the branch
> is created, and create the branch, say, one week from now.
> Issue a first pre-release then.

We need collect issues first, and decide whether one week is enough to
stabilize the master and create branch then.  I didn't follow the regression
tests in buildbot, but I'll take a look.

Do we have a wiki page to track all these issues for release?

>
> Meanwhile, we can try fixing all reported issues that were found
> and deemed blocking for the release. To avoid having some issues
> being reported too late, I propose we wait for September to make
> our the 7.12 release. If necessary, we can make a second pre-release
> early september.

I have a travel at the end of the Sep, but I think 7.12 is already
released then.
The time is good to me.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)