[LLVMdev] 3.4.1 Release Plans

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 01/04/2014 11:26, Renato Golin wrote:
> Hi Jiangning,
>
> Thank you very much for doing all the hard work of integrating the
> patches and testing it beforehand, it really helps the back-porting!
>
>
> On 1 April 2014 09:25, Jiangning Liu <liujiangning1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know the patch list is little bit longer, we have the following reasons,
>> 1) Last year, when branch 3.4 was created, actually we didn't really have
>> time to complete all AArch64 neon work. So branch 3.4 is actually at the
>> middle stage of aarch64 neon implementation. Now the patches I'm requesting
>> intends to give a complete AArch64 NEON feature.
> I'd be less comfortable with this change than the others, since it
> introduces new functionality (and may introduce incompatibility with
> previous behaviour), but I'll let Tom decide.
With my packager hat, I agree with you. I don't think we should accept
any new features in the stable releases.
Only important bugs fixes should be part of the release.

Sylvestre