From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21378 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2015 01:30:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 21367 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jul 2015 01:30:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ig0-f174.google.com Received: from mail-ig0-f174.google.com (HELO mail-ig0-f174.google.com) (209.85.213.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 01:30:04 +0000 Received: by igrv9 with SMTP id v9so2905273igr.1 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:30:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.148.8 with SMTP id w8mr2693244iod.116.1436491802703; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.108.21 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Jul 2015 18:30:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150709232141.GA7406@adacore.com> References: <20150709232141.GA7406@adacore.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 01:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GDB 7.9.90 available for testing From: David Edelsohn To: Joel Brobecker Cc: GDB Patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00310.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> Why should GDB 7.10 be considered ready for release with the large >> number of regressions shown by the GDB Buildbot? The buildbot only >> recently was created and shows numerous regressions on almost all >> architectures relative to when the buildslave started running. > > I don't follow the Buildbot day to day, unfortunately, and there are > many configurations; so I rely on everyone with regular emails on > this list to help me determine whether there might be issues blocking > for (1) cutting the branch, and (2) making the official release. > We keep the list on a wiki page that helps us track identified issues > for each release. For instance, for 7.10, we have: > https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB_7.10_Release > As you can see, very little has been reported. > > I am happy holding the creation of the official release up for > however long it would take to analyze the buildBot failures, > and to fix all blocking issues. Honestly, given the traffic seen > here derived from issues found by the buildBot, I thought that > people were already keeping an eye on the results. I'm not certain if the baselines truly are accurate for all buildslaves, but it seems strange to create a release when the buildbot testsuite results show patches causing new failures. - David