[llvm-dev] Flang landing in the monorepo - next Monday!

[Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev]

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 4:19 AM Mehdi AMINI via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 6:04 AM Peter Waller via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> As discussed before Christmas, this is a reminder that we intend to
>> merge flang on the 13th January (next Monday) before the llvm-10 branch.
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> Why is it targeting pre-llvm10 branching? Are we expecting to ship anything in LLVM 10? If so I would have expected it to land much much earlier to be able to stabilize during the development phase long before the branching point.

I was wondering about this too. I'm not necessarily opposed, but
wouldn't it make sense to target landing soon *after* the branch
instead, to give it time to integrate, stabilize, and then ship in the
next release?