On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > 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.
If we do this make sure to update branching.html and translation.html where I recently inserted references to "stage 3 or 4". -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
