> This status report has been a long time coming, for which I apologize. > > As fwprop is no longer on the table for 4.2, and as the vectorizer > improvements seem to have stalled due to a combination of lack of review > and Dorit's leave,
That is unfortunate. Dorit did make a sincere effort to prepare her patches long ago (mid February) well before leaving, and Victor has been constantly pinging for reviews, ready to address them. Ayal. > I think it's time to declare 4.2 feature-complete. > > That leaves us looking at regressions. There are lots; presently 56 > P1s. About half of those are new in 4.2. So, we're not ready to create > a 4.2 branch. > > Therefore, we need to make the mainline open for regression-fixes only > to force ourselves to attack the open bugs. Please consider the > mainline operating under release-branch rules as of 12:01 AM Wednesday, > California time. That will give everyone a few days to check in any > in-progress bug-fixes that are not regressions. > > At this time, I don't think it makes sense to set a 4.2 target branch > date. We have to see how fast the bug-fixing goes. > > -- > Mark Mitchell > CodeSourcery > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (650) 331-3385 x713
