Releases 2.27 and 2.26.1

[Mike Frysinger]

On 23 Jun 2016 07:30, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:49:09AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 22 Jun 2016 09:26, Peter Bergner wrote:
> > > On 6/10/16 10:02 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > > > I'd like to create the 2.27 branch soon, and also to build the 2.26.1 release.
> > > > If you have any pending patch you'd like to have in one of these releases, please speak quickly!
> > > 
> > > Our hardware people just contacted me this morning about a few new
> > > instructions being added to ISA 3.0 (ie, POWER9).  I'd like to add
> > > those to trunk to make 2.27.  I can have them committed today if
> > > that's alright with you.
> > 
> > wasn't the idea of doing two releases a year specifically to avoid
> > this last minute kind of rush ?  is this hardware going to be coming
> > out in the next 6 months such that everyone will have access to it ?
> 
> Let's see the patch before you reject it out of hand.

i wasn't rejecting the patch, i was rejecting the request to block the
branch to wait for a feature patch that didn't exist
-mike
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