From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28202 invoked by alias); 26 Mar 2002 23:31:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 28120 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2002 23:31:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO taltos.codesourcery.com) (66.92.14.122) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Mar 2002 23:31:07 -0000 Received: from zack by taltos.codesourcery.com with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16q0P8-0001I5-00; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:31:02 -0800 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:31:00 -0000 From: Zack Weinberg To: Neil Booth Cc: Richard Henderson , Jim Blandy , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gcc development schedule [Re: sharing libcpp between GDB and GCC] Message-ID: <20020326233102.GO23331@codesourcery.com> References: <20020325234047.127345EA11@zwingli.cygnus.com> <20020326040735.GM23331@codesourcery.com> <20020326142901.B16366@redhat.com> <20020326231730.GA1283@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020326231730.GA1283@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00260.txt.bz2 On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:17:30PM +0000, Neil Booth wrote: > Richard Henderson wrote:- > > I think this is a mistake. It is completely unreasonable to have > > the entire "major structural changes" time period concurrent with > > "please work on making a release happen". > > I agree. I think the releases should be an 8-month cycle rather > than a 6-month cycle. In other words, 4 months for destabilizing > changes. m3 t00. I'll add that this is an argument for a better version control system; most of the changes on the queue inside my head, I would have done on a branch if CVS didn't make branches such a pain. (E.g. it takes about 10x longer to do "cvs update" on the 3.0 branch than the trunk.) zw