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Re: Release schedule


> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 07:31:03PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>> >Which branches are CURRENT and NEXT coming from?
> 
>> 
>> Er, yes.
>> 
> 
>> >Is CURRENT going to be gdb 5.2.1 from gdb_5_2-branch,
>> >with NEXT coming from the trunk?
>> >
>> >I'm trying to get a feel for how active the 5.2 branch will be.
> 
>> 
>> My expectation is:
>> - 5.2.1 from 5.2 branch in ~1-2 months
>> - ``current'' would be the 5.3 branch, ~4 months
>> - ``next'' would be the 5.4/6.0 branch, ~8 months
>> 
>>                   CURRENT                  NEXT
> 
>> >Warning:  Sun Jul 14 (2002-07-14-gmt)  Sun Nov 10 (2002-11-10-gmt)
>> >Branch:   Sun Jul 28 (2002-07-28-gmt)  Sun Nov 24 (2002-11-24-gmt)
>> >Release:  Sun Sep  1 (2002-09-01-gmt)  Sun Dec 29 (2002-12-29-gmt)
>> >reSpin:   Sun Oct  6 (2002-10-06-gmt)  Sun Feb  2 (2003-02-02-gmt)
> 
>> 
>> However, given GDB has actually managed two releases in 6 months and a 
>> recent thread on this list suggests GCC is considering slowing down to 8 
>> month schedules, now is proably the time to ``re-negotiate'' GDB's 
>> release schedule.
> 
> 
> Do we want to persue the 6.0 idea you mentioned earlier?  Perhaps six
> months rather than four?

That would look like:

GDB is on a ~6 month (26 week) release cycle.
                    CURRENT                  NEXT
Warning:  Sun Sep 15 (2002-09-15-gmt)  Sun Mar 16 (2003-03-16-gmt)
Branch:   Sun Sep 29 (2002-09-29-gmt)  Sun Mar 30 (2003-03-30-gmt)
Release:  Sun Nov  3 (2002-11-03-gmt)  Sun May  4 (2003-05-04-gmt)
reSpin:   Sun Dec  8 (2002-12-08-gmt)  Sun Jun  8 (2003-06-08-gmt)

if the releases are too infrequent, the process of removing old code 
gets slowed down a little (but I guess I can live with that).

Anyone else?

Andrew



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