Re: GCC 3.1 Release

[Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>]

Neil Booth wrote:

> Mark Mitchell wrote:-

> > I have a proposal before the SC to slip the GCC 3.2 schedule even
> > further; so that the first phase of GCC 3.2 development will now end
> > one month  beyond the release of GCC 3.1 -- June 1st -- pushing the
> > GCC 3.2  release date back to October 1st so as to give people time to
> > work on major changes for GCC 3.2 *after* GCC 3.1 is released.
> 
> IMO this is still too short; I think there should be two months after
> the previous release for the first phase, giving us an 8-month cycle
> instead of a 6-month one.

The problem with Mark's "mental model" of the release process is that
bug fixing doesn't screech to a grinding halt the moment 3.1 is out.

Because then a whole group of "new" testers comes along and finds new
bugs that we (and our "regular" testers) haven't found.  For 3.0 this
effect was so bad that basically only the 3.0.4 release can be described
as "generally useful".

I do not have a good solution to that problem.

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