On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:39:41AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> The timing on this looks a bit awkward when compared with the current
> schedule, which has the Beta going out in March and Final early in May:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/28/Schedule
>
> That would appear to mean we'd have to do a mass rebuild with a pre-
> release GCC, or do a mass rebuild between Beta and Final, or suddenly
> introduce a new compiler post-Beta, potentially meaning that we need to
> rebuild something to fix a blocker bug quite late in the release and
> discover that the new GCC which has suddenly appeared causes problems
> with building it. None of those sound like great options to me.
Mass rebuild with a prerelease version of the compiler, like every year at
least in the past 10 years in Fedora.
> Is there significant enough benefit from the new GCC to outweigh all
> these potential negative impacts to it going stable between our Beta
> and Final releases?
Yes.
Jakub
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