[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] [3.6 Release] RC3 has been tagged

[Renato Golin]

On 18 February 2015 at 17:04, Jack Howarth
<howarth.mailing.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Renato,
>        My concern is that, without strict enforcement of the triaging
> serious P1-type bugs, the major  llvm.org releases will devolve into a
> continual exchange of one set of major regressions for another set.

This is a very pessimistic view of our community. We do care about
bugs and we do tend to fix it pretty quickly, even without the beating
drum of a release cycle.


> Otherwise, folks will decide that the major releases are unsafe and eventually avoid them entirely.

As I said, releases are not meant to be a product, but a point in
time. If you want do build a product out of a release, I suggest you
to always wait for the dot-releases, as they have the fixes for
problems that were found when spinning the release, while keeping
ABI/API compatibility.

You are expecting our releases to be something it's not, and it's not
a surprise if that doesn't abide by the level of quality you aspire.
Most, if not all users don't rely that much on releases and tend to
pick a commit in between that suit their needs. This is not just
Apple, as you mentioned, but almost every one do that. Furthermore,
new versions of GCC *also* have major regressions in some benchmarks
and they also release and fix on the next dot-release.

cheers,
--renato