On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 18:45 +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:39:41AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > The timing on this looks a bit awkward when compared with the current > > schedule, which has the Beta going out in March and Final early in May: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/28/Schedule > > > > That would appear to mean we'd have to do a mass rebuild with a pre- > > release GCC, or do a mass rebuild between Beta and Final, or suddenly > > introduce a new compiler post-Beta, potentially meaning that we need to > > rebuild something to fix a blocker bug quite late in the release and > > discover that the new GCC which has suddenly appeared causes problems > > with building it. None of those sound like great options to me. > > Mass rebuild with a prerelease version of the compiler, like every year at > least in the past 10 years in Fedora. Well, true, but then just like every year, we'll wind up doing a lot of the spadework of fixing things to build with the new GCC. And probably at first some critical things will fail to build and that'll mess up the stability of the distro for a couple of weeks. I guess if everyone else is still loving that grind, hey. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
