[fpc-devel] [RFC] Modernising the FPC Release Process -- Proposal for Review

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2026, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-devel wrote:

>
> On 4/17/26 4:32 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-devel wrote:
>> On 2026-04-17 13:00, Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel wrote:
>>> And then we still have to find out if that concept works at all in the FPC 
>>> context.
>> 
>> And yet it works flawlessly on 10,000s of other open source projects (big 
>> and small). I simply don't know why you think FPC is so special that it 
>> will not work here.
>
> FPC is special in the regard that it is a compiler and that it has an 
> extremely high coupling between compiler and rtl units. So, changes are very 
> interdependent. It's hard to separate them and treat them as independent, 
> because they're simply not.

So ? How is the proposed flow at odds with this ?

I would think rather the opposite: by doing a MR you ensure related commits remain together.

Michael.