[llvm-dev] [Release-testers] [9.0.0 Release] Release Candidate 6 is here

[Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 10:32 AM Michał Górny <mgorny at gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2019-09-19 at 16:51 +0200, Hans Wennborg via Release-testers
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 4:05 PM Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > 9.0.0-rc6 was just tagged from the release_90 branch at r372100. In
> > > the Git monorepo, it's tagged as llvmorg-9.0.0-rc6.
> >
> > This has now been tagged as the final 9.0.0 release. In the Git
> > monorepo, it's tagged as llvmorg-9.0.0.
> >
> > The official release announcement will follow as soon as the source
> > tarballs and docs are ready on the web page.
> >
> > Testers: please start building the final binaries, and I'll add them
> > as they become ready.
> >
>
> Is it expected that after moving 7.1.0 and 8.0.1 to GitHub, 9.0.0 is
> again distributed via releases.llvm.org?  Not that I care either way but
> it's really frustrating to have to update URLs back and forth.

>From what I understand, the use of GitHub for the 7.1.0 and 8.0.1
tarballs was done as a test. I agree it could probably have been
communicated better.