<div dir="ltr">What's the state here?<div><br></div><div>There are three commits I've made to Clang that I'd like to see in the 3.4 release branch if for no other reason than to help out folks bootstrapping on old Linux distributions with too-old installed versions of GCC/libstdc++. These are r199632, r199633, and r199769. Let me know if you can merge them or I should or how we can get a nice stable tree that folks can check out and build as the first step of getting a bootstrap.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Renato Golin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:renato.golin@linaro.org" target="_blank">renato.golin@linaro.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On 20 January 2014 16:34, Tom Stellard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@stellard.net" target="_blank">tom@stellard.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">I'm much more concerned about platform testing and validation than I am</span><br></div>
the binaries.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>That's a good point. Distributions should trust our source branches because we tested on the release platforms, not because our binary releases are out.</div><div class="im">
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<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">As far as I understand, there only two "supported" or "first-tier" platforms:</span><br></div>
X86 and ARM.</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Yes. That makes three architectures: x86, x86_64 and ARM32.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_extra">ARM64, Mips, PPC and others still aren't "first-tier" so we don't need to worry about them right now.</div>
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Do we cancel the release, or do we take the position<br>
that if no one is willing to provide testing resources for a platform, then it<br>
is not really worthy of "supported" or "first-tier" status.<br></blockquote><div></div></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">We can't cancel the status of first-tier because patch releases are not yet official. Heck, even skipping an official release wouldn't necessarily remove the status if we have buildbots, and extensive offline tests elsewhere. So we can't play that card.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Since both x86 and ARM communities are large enough, I don't think we'll ever be without hands to at least build the release and run a test-suite. That should give us enough peace of mind to progress with the release. But as more platforms start joining the release process, we'll have to make sure they can cope with the process when demand comes.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Furthermore, as it stands, we have at least two people willing to build and test for each platform. As a last resort, I could do all three releases, since I have the hardware available, so we can still test the patch release on all three major archs. Other people in this list can also do the same, so I think that we're covered.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers,</div><div class="gmail_extra">--renato</div></div>
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