Deadline for including new ports in a release ?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:11:06PM +0200, Galit Heller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are in the process of submitting a binutils port to National Semiconductor's
> CR16C architecture (the copyright assignments are signed, the employer
> disclaimer is in process).
> 
> The current code we have is for binutils 2.12. Now we need to merge with the
> mainline and submit patches. In this regard I have the following questions:
> 
> In order to be included in 2.15, is there a deadline for sumitting the new
> port ?
> 
> In case the port is not included in 2.15, could it be included in a non-major
> release (2.15.x) ?
> 
> Is there an apporximation for the length of time inbetween 2.15 and such
> a sequential release ? 

Releases are periodic and very loosely scheduled.  Also, in general,
BFD ports are less intrusive than (say) GCC ports.  So there are no
real deadlines, except "before 2.15 freezes".  There's no date on that
yet but it will probably be in ~2 months.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer