time to create the GDB 8.1.x branch?
Pedro Alves
palves@redhat.com
Thu Nov 23 17:32:00 GMT 2017
On 11/23/2017 04:50 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Can we consider delaying the branching some more time? E.g., at least
>> a week? I'm not certain I'll be able to address all of Keith's comments
>> on the wildmatching series this week (and I'd very much like to get it in
>> because the sooner we have that in a release, the sooner we can move
>> gdb to a C++ namespace), and also, a lot of folks in the US are off for
>> thanksgiving this week (including Keith :-). There are a few other pending
>> patches that I'd like to try to get in (patches that have already been posted
>> but are waiting for review, e.g., DWARF5 indexes, Keith's inline
>> breakpoint and ptype patches, etc.), and next Monday is just looking too
>> tight.
>
> Absolutely.
>
> There are a number of patches that people would like to get in, and
> I won't create the branch until I have at least given those a chance
> to get in. Using the branch to help us decide which changes we want
> to focus is good, but I don't want people to feel pressured into
> rush them and/or cutting corners. The calendar is only a reference
> for us, but other than that, we only create the branch when we feel
> this is a good time.
>
Thanks Joel. I'll keep you posted.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves
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