From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1545 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2004 20:11:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 1536 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2004 20:11:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vortex.ices.utexas.edu) (128.83.68.102) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Mar 2004 20:11:00 -0000 Received: from terra.ices.utexas.edu (IDENT:aSA3iNzrMOZ6R4t1kqtJeyLbpzEAVZDR@terra.ices.utexas.edu [128.83.68.97]) by vortex.ices.utexas.edu (8.12.8/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2TKB0Iw019104; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:11:00 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by terra.ices.utexas.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) id i2TKAxAW009786; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:10:59 -0600 From: Wolfgang Bangerth To: Joe Buck , Gabriel Dos Reis Subject: Re: GCC-3.3.4 release status report Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:20:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403291410.59630.bangerth@ices.utexas.edu> X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg01675.txt.bz2 >On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 11:09:52AM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >> The number of open PRs targetted for 3.3.4 has grown up to 46 >> (from 41 last report). > > That is a *huge* number of bugs to attempt to fix in the fourth point > release; an attempt to fix even half that number will probably result in > 3.3.4 being less stable than 3.3.3. Indeed. My feeling is that way too many patches are going into 3.3.4 without any analysis as to the risk of them. We already have some regressions with respect to previous 3.3.x releases due to this. See for example PR 14640. I personally think that it is not a huge problem if we don't fix every single PR in 3.3.4 given that 3.4.0 is close. In fact, I find it a nuisance to have to look at all the PRs targeted for 3.3.x if I want to find out what needs to be done for 3.4. We should be more willing to retire PRs if they are already fixed in 3.4. W. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Bangerth email: bangerth@ices.utexas.edu www: http://www.ices.utexas.edu/~bangerth/