[LLVMdev] LLVM 3.4.2 Release Plan - Testers Needed

[Sebastian Dreßler]

Hi,

As usual, I can do the OS X part, probably as well with GCC 4.9.

Cheers,
Sebastian


2014-05-12 17:57 GMT+02:00 Tom Stellard <tom at stellard.net>:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to begin the 3.4.2 release process for LLVM.  There have
> been two issues identified in 3.4.1, which there is interest in having
> fixed in a 3.4.x release:
>
> 1. Build failure with gcc 4.9 (This is not a regression, 3.4 also fails
> to build with gcc 4.9).
>
> 2. Accidental change of libLLVM's DT_SONAME  from libLLVM-3.4
> libLLVM-3.4.1.so
>
> I will also accept any other bug-fixes that people want to submit as
> long as they conform to the rules of stable releases:
> http://llvm.org/docs/HowToReleaseLLVM.html#release-patch-rules
>
> In order to get these fixes out quickly, we will have a very short period
> for nominating bug-fixes, followed by our usually stable release testing
> phase.
>
> Here is an approximate schedule:
>
> Monday, May 12 to Thursday, May 15: Nominate bug-fixes for the 3.4 branch.
> Friday, May 16 to Friday, May 23:   Testing Phase I
> Monday, May 25:                     Release or Phase II of testing if
> necessary.
>
> If you are interested in helping with release qualification testing
> of  3.4.2, send me an email with the target, operating system and host
> compiler you can test with.  Since we have fixes specifically for gcc
> 4.9 in this release we need some testers who can test with gcc 4.9.
>
> Besides release qualification, it will be helpful to have people building
> the 3.4 branch with gcc 4.9 and looking for potential issues.  This can be
> done before the testing phase once the gcc 4.9 fixes have landed.
>
> I have a busy schedule in the next month, so I would like to have one or
> more
> backup up release managers, in case I am unable to make this release in a
> timely
> manner.  If you are interested in this, let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
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