On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Miloslav Trmač <m...@redhat.com> wrote: >> * Contingency mechanism: Revert to older gcc, mass rebuild everything again >> * Contingency deadline: Before release > > This is an invasive contingency mechanism, requiring retesting a lot of > functionality; the contingency deadline for this (i.e. when we need to be > comfortable that the revert will not be needed, should certainly be at the > usual beta freeze at the latest, if not earlier. Invoking this contingency > mechanism “before release”, say during the GA RC phase, would really not be > feasible without a massive slip.
Any revert of this would mean another mass rebuild similar to what was needed in F-21 which will guarantee a slip of probably two weeks, late in the beta phase this becomes more of an issue. 18K packages do take some time to rebuild, tag etc. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
