Richard Guenther wrote:

> Note that Stage 3 isn't that strict as it may sound.  Maintainers have
> quite amount of flexibility deciding what is considered a bug and thus
> a bugfix during Stage 3 (note that Stage3 is _not_ only for regression
> fixes).  This includes obviously Graphite and LTO as well as target
> specific changes.
> 
> What you won't see in Stage 3 is rewrites of infrastructure or adding of
> new optimization passes.

  Thanks Richard, that's pretty reassuring.

  BTW, why don't we call this more-flexible-stage-3 "stage 2" any more?  It
sounds a lot like the way that's still described on develop.html.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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