As you know we have been in stage1 for about two weeks now. Thus it is time to present a rough schedule of GCC 4.4 and the projects we are aware of trying to make that release.
GCC 4.4 stage1 started at Feb 18th and will end two month after that, Apr 21st. Stage2 will end two month after that, Jun 23th. After stage3 ends at Aug 18th we will go into regresion and documentation fixes only and process with releasing after reaching zero P1 regressions. Sofar the theory. There are several branches thriving to merge during the current stage1. One of it has elected itself to be special and be merged last, at the very end of stage1 - the tuples branch. All other branches are free to merge once they reach the common criteria for branch merging. Please announce branch merges early; the trunk will be frozen for 24h before a scheduled branch merge to allow for merging from trunk, bootstrapping and testing on multiple primary platforms and finally merging the branch. I am aware of the following merge candidates: the LTO branch, the incremental compiler branch, the selective scheduling branch, the YARA branch and of course the tuples branch. Please announce those I forgot so they have the chance of getting reviewed properly in time. We hope you have a pleasant development during the GCC 4.4 series. Thanks, Richard.
