Joel Brobecker via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
>> 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.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. That makes sense too. Do people want us
> to switch to this kind of approach?

Yeah, I'd definitely appreciate it for Gentoo. In fact, when you sent
the first email in this thread, I'd just been wondering if I should ask
about a point release at least.

Distros in general don't need a release to be action-packed (crammed
full of features), it's better that we get bug fixes out faster and
not have to worry about cherry-picking ourselves. It also makes
debugging any regressions a lot easier if the delta is a bit smaller ;)

I've CC'd marcan as well because he recently had some frustration
working on Asahi Linux when it turned out something had been fixed in
master a good while ago but hadn't propagated into a release.

The only disadvantage I see is if there's too much work to cut a release. But
the fix to that is to make releases easier, I think.

best,
sam