On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Gerald Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My recommendation in my very unoffical role as "carer of the snapshots" > > is to stop doing those weekly snapshots for the 4.1 branch, and I will > > be happy to roll a new snapshot upon request in case someone (like a > > GNU/Linux or BSD distribution would like to see one for their packages) > > in that case.
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:49:27PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote: > I'd rather close the 4.2 branch than the 4.1 one. Unfortunately the FSF > has put us in a situation where we can't do any more 4.1 releases. Can we > slow down the 4.1 snapshot interval to 4 weeks instead? There haven't been any changes since April 8, so in the meantime about six identical snapshots went out. A 4-week interval still would have produced a wasted snapshot. A third alternative is to issue a snapshot (at whatever time interval is chosen) iff there's been a checkin on the branch.