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| CURRENT (7.6) | NEXT (7.7) | |
|---|---|---|
| Branch: | February (2013-02-02) | September (2013-09-07) |
| Pre-release: | [as soon as branched] | [as soon as branched] |
| Release: | April (2013-04-26) | September (2013-09-20) |
| reSpin: | July (2013-07-26) | [3 months after release] |
Problems that should be resolved before the next release are marked as ``high priority'' in the bug database.
GDB's schedule works on a slip-for-slip basis. If, for some reason, the branch date slips, the release date will slip by an equivalent amount.
| Release | Estimate | Schedule | Actual | Slip (months) | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.6 | 2013-02 | 2013-02 | 2013-04-26 | 2 | Larger than usual number of regressions and critical issues detected after creating branch | 7.5 | 2012-11 | 2012-11 | 2012-08-20 | 2 | 7.5 | 2012-06 | 2012-06 | 2012-08-17 | 2 | Waiting for last few patches and for Release Manager to be available. | 7.4.1 | 2012-04 | 2012-04 | 2012-04-26 | 0 | 7.4 | 2011-12 | 2011-12 | 2012-01-24 | 1 | Waited for some features, and a bit of instability introduced just before branching. | 7.3.1 | (none) | (none) | 2011-09-04 | Unplanned minor corrective release decided as soon as we were told that the ISBN and edition number needed to be changed in the GDB User's Guide. | 7.3 | 2011-03 | 2011-03 | 2011-07-26 | 4 | Regressions due to "dwarf2 physname" took a very long time to fix | 7.2 | 2010-08 | 2010-07 | 2010-09-02 | 2 | Some blocking problems discovered prior to branching; a delay due to the Release Manager disappearing; and delays prior to releasing due to some missing documentation. | 7.1 | 2010-02 | 2010-03 | 2010-03-18 | 1 | Waited for a few extra features that were almost ready but not quite. | 7.0.1 | 2009-12 | 2009-12 | 2009-12-22 | 0 | 7.0 | 2009-05 | 2009-05 | 2009-10-06 | 5 | Too many new features that needed a little extra time to mature. | 6.8 | 2008-02 | 2008-02 | 2008-02-29 | 0 |
| 6.7 | 2007-07 | 2007-07 | 2007-10-10 | 3 | Delayed mostly by the transition to GPLv3 and a few unexpected regressions. |
| 6.6 | 2006-11 | 2006-12 | 2006-12-18 | 6.5 | (none) | (none) | 2006-06-21 |
| 6.4 | 2005-11 | 2005-11 | 2005-12-01 | 0 | |
| 6.3 | 2004-11 | 2004-11 | 2004-11-09 | 0! | We rock! |
| 6.2 | 2004-08 | 2004-07-30 | 2004-07-30 | 0 | Went very
smootly (provided you ignore that MIPS was discovered to be broken on
the last day). |
| 6.1.1 | 2004-05 | 2004-05-31 | 2004-06-16 | 1 | Kept NEWS
entries missed in 6.1. |
| 6.1 | 2004-01 | 2004-03-27 | 2004-04-04 | 2 | Branched
two months late (slight distraction). Need to ensure that only bug
fixes get committed to the branch. |
| 6 | 2003-03 | 2003-08-26 | 2003-10-06 | 2 | The estimated branch date was 2003-03-01-gmt, but in the end it was scheduled for 2003-06-14-gmt. Once on the branch, a very small list of must-have features draged things out. Adding to the fun, at the last moment the process hit unanticipated non-coding problems causing the cart wheels to fall off :-) |
| 5.3 | 2002-10-09 | 2002-12-12 | 2 | Branched on time. Released late. Too many things to cleanup on the branch. | |
| 5.2.1 | 2002-06-16 | 2002-07-23 | 1 | Scheduled too soon after previous release | |
| 5.2 | 2002-04-07 | 2002-04-30 | 1 | ||
| 5.1.1 | 2002-01-24 | 2002-01-24 | |||
| 5.1 | 2001-08-05 | 2001-11-21 | 3 | Unscheduled (human) breakage | |
| 5 | 2000-02-29 | 2000-05-19 | 3 | Too ambitious | |
| 4.18 | 1999-04-10 |
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