From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Release 2.12
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:52:00 -0000
Message-id: <20011025122145.E1037@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00477.html

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:37:31PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> 
> > As HP commented to me in private mail, H.J. is already acting as release
> > manager.  The number of people using HJ's releases should speak loudly;
> > if he was doing something wrong there would be a large scale migration
> > of linux users back to FSF releases.
> 
> binutils is not, however, solely for Linux.  I think one of the major
> questions would be whether he wants to put the same work into making sure
> the other platforms also work.

Or in concert with other people.  Release managers _can't_ test
everything themselves.