X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f X-Recipient: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:43:31 +0300 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: [psmith AT gnu DOT org: GNU make: Next release schedule.] X-012-Sender: halo1 AT inter DOT net DOT il To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, Juan Manuel Guerrero Message-id: <83vdjiwrgs.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com FYI Juan, this would be a good time to resubmit your DJGPP patches, so that they will be included in Make 3.82. Thanks. ------- Start of forwarded message ------- X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 From: Paul Smith To: make-alpha Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:22:08 -0400 Subject: GNU make: Next release schedule. Hi all. I'm announcing a schedule for the next release of GNU make, version 3.82. I plan to kick off the release cycle by creating GNU make 3.81.91 (3.82 rc1) on Oct 1. I'll create a release tarball and announce it in the usual places, and give until Oct 15 for people to test it out. Of course if there are show-stopper issues I will release a new rc before Oct 15. At that point I'll evaluate where we are and decide whether we need a new release candidate or not. My goal is to get an official release out by Nov 1. My last release was on April Fools; maybe this one will be on Halloween :-). However, I won't make the release if there are serious issues of course. During the next two weeks I plan to finish up some performance/memory improvements I've had lying around, related to secondary expansion etc. As you all know there are still plenty of bugs and enhancement requests, as well as patches, on the Savannah site. I definitely will not be able to satisfy all, or even most, of those. However, judging by the number of bugs marked fixed in CVS any new release will be an improvement and if we wait for everything to be fixed we'll never get a release out. If there are important issues you think must be resolved before 3.82, please let me know. I've created a new attribute in the Savannah bug tracker, "Triage Status". The idea is to mark whether a bug has been looked at or not. I've only updated a few bugs so far; I hope to do more. It would be very useful if folks who are familiar with Windows can examine the Windows platform bugs and either update the status or let me know and I'll do it. Or, fix the bugs of course! :-) Going Forward After the release, I'll be converting the GNU make CVS archive over to git. Windows folks, please let me know if you will be OK with this; I'm not sure what the current status of git support on Windows is. I'll also be instituting regular, time-based releases. Probably every 6 months but maybe more often if activity warrants it. The current method of trying to fix everything before the release is not working, obviously; let's try the "early and often" release model instead. I'm hoping that the improved branch support in git will let us work on longer-term projects without having to delay bug fix releases. - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.net "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Make-alpha mailing list Make-alpha AT gnu DOT org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-alpha ------- End of forwarded message -------