Gabriel Dos Reis writes: > Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Gabriel Dos Reis has agreed to serve as RM for 3.3.3, freeing Mark Mitchell > | to focus on the 3.4 release. We were going to delay announcing this until > | next week, since Gaby will have a chance to meet with Mark in person on > | Monday to discuss plans, but since it seems that some people were taking > | actions based on the assumption that there wouldn't be a 3.3.3, I thought > | that I would go ahead and announce this. > | > | This repeats what we did for the 3.2.x series: Gaby was RM for the > | 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 releases, while Mark handled the earlier ones. > | > | Thanks, Gaby. Detailed information about the 3.3.3 process will come out > | next week, after Gaby and Mark have had a chance to discuss it. > > Thanks, Joe. > > We just had a "GCC dinner" here in Kona, with lots of wishes/dreams > for GCC :-). > > My plan for the 3.3 series is to have regular releases every 3 > months until some indeterminate point in the future, that > indeterminate point being after - at least - two releases from the 3.4 > branch. After that indeterminate point, I'll make 2 releases every 6 > months with no official announcements. And after that, I will probably > close the branch depending on the situation of 3.4.x at that time. > The idea behind that is to give distributors and packagers a chance to > build from a regularly released "official 3.3.x tree" that have 3.3 ABI. > > The tentative release date for GCC-3.3.3 is set January 31th. > > Thanks, > > -- Gaby
This effort is highly appreciated, speaking here not officially for Debian, but as a packager for GCC. Many thanks! Matthias