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Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce gdb::unique_ptr


On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
>> BTW, I noticed that maintainers seem very busy these days and patches
>> are waiting unusually long for review.
>
> Yeah.  Myself, I don't really know nowadays what it means to not be very busy, and
> also getting the 7.12 release/branch ready took me significant effort.  Over the
> past few releases, I've been considering whether an explicit "bugfixes/regressions
> only" state, like gcc's stages would help -- because what happens is that
> people send in patches for master and the pings and if they're not following
> development closely, they won't realize the reason people are not
> looking at their patches is the focus on the release, and everyone is
> frustrated.  At least I am.

That is helpful to manage people's expectation...  In every release, it
takes me about 1~2 months on seriously test, bug fix and regression
fix.

I'd like to see the gcc-like stages in gdb development.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)


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