On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 08:27 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
The largest problem I have with all this is the fact that the
release
guidelines that everyone else has to follow don't appear to be followed
at all in this case. You're introducing a backported feature into a
critical path package after Feature freeze, and after a mass-rebuild
which would have arguably helped test the hell out of this. Any other
maintainer would have to get an exception from rel-eng and/or FESCo in
order to do something like this. I don't see why the same requirements
don't apply here.
This is my issue too. There is claim that it was tested, yet it wasn't
tested in the same place we require every other feature to be tested,
that being rawhide.
If GCC is going to get special treatment, we should discuss, agree upon,
and document that special treatment to avoid GCC being used as an excuse
for others to ignore our policy and procedure.
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Jesse Keating
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