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Content-Language: en-US To: Simon Marchi , Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <945cb511-3bd0-7004-caa7-9f0deb76e766@simark.ca> From: John Baldwin In-Reply-To: <945cb511-3bd0-7004-caa7-9f0deb76e766@simark.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,NICE_REPLY_A,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On 5/1/23 6:37 AM, Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches wrote: > On 4/29/23 16:15, Joel Brobecker via Gdb-patches wrote: >> GDB 14.1 Branching and Release >> ============================== >> >> Normally, my default approach is to start talking about the next >> major release as soon as the previous .2 release is out. The idea >> is to give ourselve 3 months or so to prepare for it, branch and >> then release, so as to try to follow a schedule of one major release >> every 6 months. >> >> In this case, I think it's too early to tell. I've looked at the NEWS >> file, and while there are a number of nice new features, maybe we might >> want to wait a little longer to see if we can pack this release a little >> more. > > IMO, it's better to make regular releases than waiting to have a certain > amount of changes. The changes currently in master might not look > important to me, but maybe someone else is eagerly waiting for a > specific fix or feature to be officially released. I'm also a fan of time-based release schedules. -- John Baldwin