Releases 2.27 and 2.26.1

[Tristan Gingold]

> On 22 Jun 2016, at 16:49, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> 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 ?

Yes, that was the idea.

For this specific patch, Peter's patch was very focused and committed
quickly enough so blocking didn't occur.

Tristan.