GDB Focus Group at the 2008 GCC Summit

[Joel Brobecker]

>  > |     For people really interested in trying it out before the official
>  > |     release, perhaps either:
>  > |       - Announce various nightly tarballs that contain the features
>  > |       - Or perhaps create a 6.9 branch but never release 6.9. Just
>  > |         make various pre-releases 6.8.90, 6.8.91, etc.
> 
> If you are talking about branching now, I think that will mean that most
> development will happen on the branch, i.e., there's not much point in
> branching.  You might as well make bugfix releases, or what GDB calls respins,
> 6.8.1, 6.8.2 etc from the 6.8 branch.

The branch would of course be created when the features are checked
in HEAD, not before.

-- 
Joel