[LLVMdev] Next LLVM release thoughts?

Misha Brukman brukman at cs.uiuc.edu
Thu Oct 13 10:32:54 PDT 2005


On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:04:38PM -0500, Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Reid Spencer wrote:
> >As I'm not particularly active with LLVM right now, it doesn't make
> >any difference to me, personally.  However, I am a strong advocate
> >for "release early, release often".  We had previously agreed to
> >releases 4 times per year. This will be the 3rd and final one this
> >year.  Many users of LLVM only work from release to release so it is
> >unfair to them to let them stray very far from the CVS "head" simply
> >for lack of releases.
> 
> Makes sense.  Somehow I expected this response from everyone :)

Well, I already read a few people echo my sentiments, but since you
expect this from _everyone_, let me second what Reid and Andrew Lenharth
have said.  :)
 
> How does this tentative plan sound: we have two more weeks of
> development, then start the release processing part on about Oct 31
> (spooky!).

In that case, it needs a cool "release name".  :)
 
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