Release 0.26: branching

[Richard Earnshaw]

On 17/11/15 15:34, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 
>> My suggestion would be to run a lighter weight version of the GCC
>> development process (which I think works very well overall) with perhaps
>> a 5-month development window followed by a one month stabilization
>> window.  At the end of that month the release branch is cut and a
>> release made from it once the code is suitably validated.  Backporting
> 
> This sounds like the glibc release process (except that glibc releases are 
> made from master and the branch then made with the release point as the 
> branch point).
> 

Possibly; glibc doesn't really do much in the way of maintenance
(re)releases though.

R.