On 07/12/2017 02:29 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 02:20:29PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> 2018-01-10 is way too early for a mass rebuild from GCC point of view,
>> even if we perform the test mass rebuild over the Christmas break,
>> there won't be enough time to analyze it and fix any GCC issues revealed
>> during that time. GCC bugfixing usually starts around November 15th and
>> needs some time before it can be fixed enough to use widely.
>> Moving the mass rebuild one week earlier than last time
>> is maybe doable, but not one month. And not rebuilding F27 with GCC 8
>> is a bad idea for both the compiler and Fedora.
> I also expect that the next glibc cycle will be even worse as far as
> glibc stability during the freeze is concerned, so I'm skeptical about a
> rebuild in mid-January as well.
Do you guys have a suggestion to address this which does not result in
a June or July target date overall? Because I really, really don't want
to do that again.
For glibc, we can perhaps make arrangements that we have the people
around to force things into a buildable state. But considering
upstream's freeze policies, it's still risky.
Florian