Re: GCC 4.5 Status Report (2009-09-19)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Dave Korn wrote:
> > We have ~48 hours left for stage 1 and I can't be confident of getting 
> > it reviewed in the remaining time, so I'd like to make a special 
> > request: can you, as RM, please say that this is OK in principle and 
> > that if I can get v3 approval (it already has all other necessary 
> > approvals) I can check it in during stage 3 before we branch?
> 
> Historically I think we have been flexible for patches that have been
> submitted during stage 1.
> 
> Now, submitting a one liner as your first attempt at a new pass today
> and then claiming the rest are just fixes, would be a stretch :-), but
> for a patch like yours it does not seem unreasonable.

Just to followup once and answer all the multiple requests that have
been (and will be) come up - during stage 3 it is up to the respective
maintainers to decide what is considered a bugfix and whether to allow
changes to go in that were submitted during stage 1.  The release
managers trust the maintainers to make stage 3 a success - which means
mainly fixing fallout from stage 1 or to complete features that have
been checked in during stage 1.

Thanks,
Richard.