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From: Mark Loeser <halcy0n@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 4.6.* unmasked, 4.7.0 added to tree
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 08:11:54
Message-Id: 20120522081100.GA5704@halcy0n.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] GCC 4.6.* unmasked, 4.7.0 added to tree by Ryan Hill
1 Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> said:
2 > I've added 4.7.0 to the tree tonight (unkeyworded and masked as usual).
3 >
4 > I've also keyworded the 4.6 series on all arches except amd64 (due to the
5 > grub bug). This is a temporary measure until we figure out the best course of
6 > action (at least we have some people looking at the problem now).
7
8 Awesome, thanks.
9
10 > I personally apologize for the extremely long delay in getting these releases
11 > out in a timely manner. As such, I'm stepping down as GCC maintainer.
12 > Someone with as limited free time and programming experience as myself has
13 > no business maintaining a such core piece of a source-based distro.
14 >
15 > Sorry to dump even more on your shoulders Mike, but really I haven't been
16 > helping out much this past year anyways. I'll still be doing gcc-porting and
17 > hunting down patches like I used to.
18
19 I've been looking for things to start working on again, and I could step
20 back up and start to do some of the work I used to do for GCC releases.
21 I'll talk with Mike to figure out how we can best split up the work.
22
23 Thanks for all your work on the releases,
24
25 --
26 Mark Loeser
27 email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org
28 email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com
29 web - http://www.halcy0n.com

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