Proposed F19 Feature: GCC48 - switch GCC in Fedora 19 to 4.8.x, rebuild all packages with it

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:15:25 -0500
Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> > GCC 4.8.0 is going to be released in mid March to mid April and is
> > currently in regression bugfix only mode. I've performed a test
> > mass rebuild on x86_64 
> 
> Looking at the schedule.... Wouldn't it be better to do the mass
> rebuild in Rawhide before the branch?

We always do this, yes. 

> If we're really looking at a second-half-of-May final release, that
> means beta testing ends the beginning of May, which possibly puts the
> window for the rebuild _after_ the beta release (let alone before the
> branch).

FESCo has not yet decided the schedule. We should nuke those stupid
DRAFT sections, because they are just confusing people. 

> If we're going to have a short F19 cycle, maybe this should be
> accepted now for F20 and happen in Rawhide after the branch. Or, if
> the F19 cycle is to be longer, maybe that's not an issue.
> 
> Unless we're really confident that this won't cause problems.

We need to decide the schedule soon IMHO. 

kevin
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