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RFC: gdb-7.12 timeframe?
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:24:17 -0700
- Subject: RFC: gdb-7.12 timeframe?
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Hello,
It's been almost 6 months since we started our previous release
cycle, so now is a good time to consider whether or not we feel
we have enough goodies to start a new process.
We have two questions to answer:
1. When to start the process (ie stabilize master and create
the release branch);
2. What timeframe to shoot for in terms of the 7.12 release.
The part that worries me is that we're about to enter the month
of Aug, which is traditionally a very slow month due to summer
holidays.
What I would like to propose is we try to create the branch soon.
This means we make a call for blocking issues before the branch
is created, and create the branch, say, one week from now.
Issue a first pre-release then.
Meanwhile, we can try fixing all reported issues that were found
and deemed blocking for the release. To avoid having some issues
being reported too late, I propose we wait for September to make
our the 7.12 release. If necessary, we can make a second pre-release
early september.
Thoughts?
--
Joel