Results of a test mass rebuild of rawhide/x86_64 with?gcc-4.7.0-0.1.fc17

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 16:35:00 +0100,
  Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 08:55:53AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > if we plan to do a mass rebuild for gcc 4.7 we need to start it next week.
> 
> IMHO a mass rebuild is highly desirable, but (with the exception of
> a few gcj/objc dependent packages not strictly required).  We still have
> lots of *.fc15, and we even have some *.fc11 packages.
> That said, why would it need to start next week?  Looking at the F15
> schedule where a mass rebuild has been performed too on Feb, 7th or so,
> the schedule milestones are the same.

That rebuild caused problems. I think we'd want the rebuild essebtially
completed before branching.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_QA_Retrospective has some issues
noted that were affected by the mass rebuild being so close to the
branch.