Re: time to create the GDB 8.1.x branch?

[Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>]

Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

> Considering that the new feature only seems to be activated when
> the necessary hwcap flag is set, it seems fine for me to backport it.
> The one concern I have, however, is that 5 weeks is a bit long for
> us to wait. Typically, what I would expect is for us to cut the
> branch, then take a two/three weeks for people to field-test and
> stabilize, before we actually create the release.
>

Hi Joel,
Looks I overestimated the period after branch cut and release.  I
thought it is about 4 ~ 5 weeks, so I thought 4 weeks from now on,
kernel patches *may* be merged, and GDB is not released yet, so I can
squeeze these gdb patches in to 8.1 release.  If the period is only
2~3 weeks, I don't want to delay the release.  On the other hand, it
takes some time for distro to pick up the Linux kernel or backport these
kernel patches, the gdb feature can't be enabled without kernel support,
so it doesn't matter too much that this feature is in gdb 8.1 or 8.2.

> I don't have a problem with delaying the release after the branch
> get created, but 5 weeks takes us roughly to start of 2018. I would
> add an extra week or two after your backport before we actually
> release, just in case there are unexpected complications with
> the patch. So, we're talking mid-January.
>
> Any objections to a release around that time?

Understood.  I withdraw this proposal, and let us target your original
plan.

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Yao (齐尧)