From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 59998 invoked by alias); 23 Nov 2017 15:16:08 -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 59929 invoked by uid 89); 23 Nov 2017 15:16:01 -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, Hx-languages-length:1430 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 15:16:00 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0CA772FE3; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:15:58 +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 2DD6E6BF8D; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:15:57 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: time to create the GDB 8.1.x branch? To: Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20171120191510.clz2ywdyknuftzrh@adacore.com> From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:16:00 -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: <20171120191510.clz2ywdyknuftzrh@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-11/txt/msg00541.txt.bz2 Joel, On 11/20/2017 07:15 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote: > Hello, > > I think it is time to start thinking about the next release (8.1), > as it has been 5.5 months since we release 8.0, and 7 months > since we created the 8.0.x branch! > > I've created the following wiki page for keeping track of this release > cycle: > > https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB_8.1_Release > > Looking at the gdb/NEWS file, it shows a fair number of enhancements. > Also, outside of one GDB PR that was marked for 8.1 but is no longer > critical IMO, we have no PR active targetting 8.1. > > Are there any changes that would be worth waiting for before we branch > 8.1? If not, I plan on creating the branch next Monday (Nov 27th). 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. Thanks, Pedro Alves