Re: heads up: one week to 8.0.1 planned release time

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>]

Hi Joel,

On 2017-08-28 03:50 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> The 8.0.1 release is currently planned for next Monday (Sep 4th).
> I took a look at the list of PRs still open, and only found one
> which wasn't a regressions, so I do not consider it blocking.

Were you talking about #21827 ?  If so I think it's a regression.
Either way, I pushed the proposed patch to both master and gdb-8.0-branch.

> I also looked at the list of PRs fixed since 8.0. It must have been
> a very good release, since we only fixed 5 PRs since then!
> 
> Anything blocking that we need to be aware of?

Yao found recently that remote multi-arch exec was broken, see this thread:

  https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00488.html

I filed a PR:

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22021

and added it to the "maybe" list.  I have posted a series to fix it
in the thread, it just needs some reviewing :)

> Assuming nothing comes up, should we go ahead with the 8.0.1 release
> next week, or do we want to wait a bit to see if we can find other
> issues we might want to fix before 8.0.1 comes out? (personally,
> I would go ahead with the 8.0.1, with the option of scheduling
> 8.0.2 if we end up finding something we really want for the 8.0.x
> branch; otherwise, 8.1 will be a mere 3 months later).
> 
> Thanks!

Fine with me, assuming we can get this multi-arch exec issue sorted out
by then (or decide it's not important enough).

Simon