[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] Reminder: 2.7 code freeze in 1.5 weeks

[Daniel Dunbar]

I am definitely in favor of this if it is ok with Tanya.

I hope to spend some time in the next few weeks on tracking down
miscompiles, and it would be great to get Clang to the
"early-but-usable-beta" stage so it makes sense to roll binaries for
2.7.

Tanya, I can also do the x86-32-pc-linux release testing if no one
else steps up.

 - Daniel

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Douglas Gregor <dgregor at apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 12, 2010, at 8:25 AM, David Greene wrote:
>
> On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:17:33 Tanya Lattner wrote:
>
> Just a reminder that the 2.7 code freeze is on Feb 21st.
>
> All major changes should be committed approximately 1 week before the code
>
> freeze to ensure adequate testing. Please do your part to keep the tree
>
> stable in the days leading up to the code freeze.
>
> Since the metadata stuff just settled recently, I like to ask for some time
> to
> get the non-temporal stuff in.  This is really critical for our work here
> and
> it would be nice to get this into 2.7.
>
> Generally, I favor timed releases over feature releases, but... the Clang
> team would also like a little more time to prepare for the 2.7 release.
> Specifically, we propose to push back by 2 weeks, with the revised schedule
> being:
> 3/7 - Code Freeze (9PM PST)
> 3/13 - Pre-release1 released & community testing begins
> 3/20 - Pre-release1 testing ends
> 3/27 - Pre-release2 released & community testing begins
> 4/3 - Pre-release2 testing ends
> 4/5 - Release
> Why now?
> Clang's C++ support is at an important transitional point: we can self-host
> a Debug build, and are starting to build significant C++ open source
> projects such as CMake, Firefox, Qt, and even parts of Boost. LLVM 2.7 is
> the perfect opportunity to enable Clang C++ support by default and announce
> to the open-source community that we now have something worth looking
> at. However, we have several known semantic analysis bugs and miscompiles
> that prevent self-hosting with optimization enabled, cause Firefox to crash
> on startup, etc. To advertise Clang C++ widely as part of 2.7 while these
> bugs remain would be embarrassing, but we feel that we can address the major
> problems with only a two-week slip in the schedule.
> Clang C++ only gets one big coming-out party (ever); a little more time will
> make a big difference.
> - Doug
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