On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:20:35AM +0100, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com> wrote:
> >> I have done this, and applied this patch to reflect that submitting a
> >> snapshot to the TP is not necessary after creating a release branch if one
> >> was submitted during stage 3 or 4 (now we have a long stabilisation period
> >> on trunk and a comparatively short one on the branch before release,
> >> submitting one from trunk is the right approach).
> >
> > Stage 4 needs to be documented on http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html then.
>
> Technically Stage 4 is the same as release branch status (just without
> branching
> before). But indeed, we should update develop.html - does this need to go via
> the SC?
We should probably drop current Stage 2 and just rename Stage 3 to Stage 2
and Stage 4 to Stage 3 as well, I think this model worked very well in 4.4.
Jakub
