<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is a reminder that we will be branching for LLVM 2.9 in <i>one week!</i> <div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><b>07:00:00 p.m. Sunday March 6, 2011 PST / 0</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><b>3:00:00 a.m. Monday March 7, 2011 GMT</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span></b></span></div><div><b>What this means for you:</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Please keep a watch on all of your patches going into mainline. And pay close attention to the buildbots and fix any issues quickly.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, please try to finish up any last minute feature work. While it won't be the last time to submit a patch for a work-in-progress feature, the more work and testing that can be done before the branching means that the release verification process will go that much more smoothly.</div><div><br></div><div>LLVM 2.9 is going to be an exciting release. It marks the end of an era in some respects, but the beginning of many new ones to come! :-)</div><div><br></div><div>-bw</div><div><br></div></body></html>