From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 78896 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2020 11:30:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 78811 invoked by uid 89); 11 Jan 2020 11:30:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=press, achieved, driven, his X-HELO: gate.crashing.org Received: from gate.crashing.org (HELO gate.crashing.org) (63.228.1.57) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 11 Jan 2020 11:30:30 +0000 Received: from gate.crashing.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id 00BBUNtQ023162; Sat, 11 Jan 2020 05:30:23 -0600 Received: (from segher@localhost) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id 00BBULNg023161; Sat, 11 Jan 2020 05:30:21 -0600 Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 11:30:00 -0000 From: Segher Boessenkool To: "Richard Earnshaw (lists)" Cc: Joseph Myers , "Eric S. Raymond" , Maxim Kuvyrkov , GCC Development , Alexandre Oliva , Jeff Law , Mark Wielaard , Jakub Jelinek Subject: Re: Proposal for the transition timetable for the move to GIT Message-ID: <20200111113021.GW3191@gate.crashing.org> References: <2b6330f2-1a00-ac89-fd3c-4b70e5454f4b@arm.com> <9B71A0F7-CD93-4636-BFC7-1D1DBC040F07@linaro.org> <6EE7BD53-6677-49D2-BCDD-56CD7DA855E9@linaro.org> <88B4DAF3-33C1-445F-8F5A-809D5463D0F9@linaro.org> <20200108221119.GA94728@thyrsus.com> <20200109023804.GR3191@gate.crashing.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2020-01/txt/msg00161.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 12:12:49PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > On 09/01/2020 02:38, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > >Where and when and by who was it decided to use this conversion? > > > >Will it at least be *tested* first? > > Tested for what? Acceptance test, of course, the only test that matters. I.e. the GCC community gets to decide if this conversion is acceptable to them, instead of being confronted with it as a fait accompli. > I want to also take this opportunity to thank Maxim for the work he has > done. Having that fallback option has meant that we could press harder > for a timely solution and has also driven several significant > improvements to the overall result. I do not think we would have > achieved as good a result overall if he hadn't developed his scripts. And my thanks go to you and everyone else who tried to make this result in a git conversion that is the most useful for us, the GCC developers (and other consumers of our repo)! Segher