Re: Gabriel Dos Reis will be RM for the 3.2.2 release

[Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>]

I wrote:
> | There isn't a schedule yet; it is up to Gaby to decide.

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:47:56AM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Well, I'd propose the following:
> 
>    o I would like to make a pre-release tarball on 2003-01-29.
> 
>    o We will have one week testing, i.e. from 2003-01-29 til 2003-02-04.
> 
>    o If no critical regression shows up, then we can do a release on
>       2003-02-05.
> 
> Comments?

One question is what the policy should be on adding anything else to
the 3.2 branch in the meantime.  My suggestion (and it's only a
suggestion) is to do something like this:

- allow fixes to problems in the 3.2 branch that don't appear in 3.2.1
  (idea: no new failures in 3.2.2 that aren't in 3.2.1, but no effort
  to fix problems that have been around for a while that haven't already
  been fixed)

- otherwise, a fix would have to have a very strong justification, it
  would fix some other regression, be important to multiple users or
  fix a bug in some significant free software package, and be low risk
  (Gaby would have to approve on such things)

I only know of one fix that might fall into the second category: Toon has
been asking for the following fix (approved by Richard) to be applied to
the 3.2 branch:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-01/msg00689.html

The deadline for adding changes would have to be at least a day, maybe
two, before Gaby makes the tarball, to reduce the chance of a last-minute
botch.