On Tue, 2019-01-22 at 08:21 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:29:28AM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > I'm sorry, I forgot to create the every year feature request for GCC this > > year and only realized that when I've successfully built first non-scratch > > gcc 9 rpms. I believe Carlos has been mentioning GCC when F30 mass rebuild > > has been discussed and GCC updates is something that has been done every > > year in Fedora since at least Fedora 9 (we've skipped GCC 4.2 release back > > in 2007). > > That's all true, but the change process still helps us coordinate. There are > many new people in Fedora every year, and the more we have documented and > explicit rather than "oh yeah, this happens every year", the better. It also be of historical importance later on - it documents why and when the change was done for future generations, who might no longer remember the reasoning.
There might be even cases where you find software referencing some strange other project, only to find two old Fedora change pages, one documenting the project being added to Fedora and another one documenting it being replaced by something else later on. This can be really helpful when hunting down obscure bugs or untangling reasons for past design decisions. > > It sounds like you're thinking of it a little as "bureaucratic paperwork > where we pretend that there's some debate about whether we're going to > continue doing a completely normal thing". But it's not that. It's "the > process for making sure our routine update to GCC across the whole distro > goes smoothly for everyone". > > > -- > Matthew Miller > <mat...@fedoraproject.org> > Fedora Project Leader > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
