[LLVMdev] LLVM 3.4 stable releases

[Renato Golin]

On 20 January 2014 16:34, Tom Stellard <tom at stellard.net> wrote:

> I'm much more concerned about platform testing and validation than I am
> the binaries.
>

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.


As far as I understand, there only two "supported" or "first-tier"
> platforms:
> X86 and ARM.


Yes. That makes three architectures: x86, x86_64 and ARM32.

ARM64, Mips, PPC and others still aren't "first-tier" so we don't need to
worry about them right now.


Do we cancel the release, or do we take the position
> that if no one is willing to provide testing resources for a platform,
> then it
> is not really worthy of "supported" or "first-tier" status.
>

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.

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.

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.

cheers,
--renato
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