From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65FD13858D28 for ; Mon, 1 May 2023 15:18:57 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 65FD13858D28 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=gentoo.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=gentoo.org References: <945cb511-3bd0-7004-caa7-9f0deb76e766@simark.ca> User-agent: mu4e 1.10.3; emacs 29.0.90 From: Sam James To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Simon Marchi , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, marcan@marcan.st Subject: Re: GDB 13.2 and GDB 14 releases... Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 16:15:01 +0100 In-reply-to: Message-ID: <87lei8w04k.fsf@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Joel Brobecker via Gdb-patches 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iOUEARYKAI0WIQQlpruI3Zt2TGtVQcJzhAn1IN+RkAUCZE/YXF8UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0MjVB NkJCODhERDlCNzY0QzZCNTU0MUMyNzM4NDA5RjUyMERGOTE5MA8cc2FtQGdlbnRv by5vcmcACgkQc4QJ9SDfkZBJtwD8C4bJuYoIK8BHglRBTpQheJX3H9mY/Jm+/xV8 /MxTuF0BAJDq/8B2oAdxLxWfU6kIBcoG3G/x1Hj8EFfTDol/wbIA =li7R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--