Rolling master branch

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 09/29/2014 08:11 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
> And, if you are still here after that wall of text, my opinion on
> branching for release and continuing development on master are
> pessimistic. Every experience I have of that situation is that releases
> take substantially longer due to focus - or at least resources -
> remaining on the master branch. As pointed out above, I think we are
> under-tested anyway in terms of gcc/binutils/etc coverage and architectures.

Agreed.

Every experience I have also suggests it actually causes the release to take
longer as developers focus on new-shiny instead of testing.

Allan, Thank you very much for volunteering to be a release manager, and for
your perspective on how to speed things up.

Cheers,
Carlos.