LLVM 14 Release Retrospective

[fhahn]

@h-vetinari

• Currently, there seems to be no real “release blocker” category that actually blocks a release - perhaps I’m wrong in this perception, but everything unfixed at a specific time seems to just get pushed to the next (patch) release. I understand the advantages for the higher-frequency “ship-what-we-have” mindset, but it would IMO be worthwhile to consider something like that (to be used sparingly).

I think one issue here is that there is a substantial number of known mis-compiles and crashes. (see Help Wanted: Improve correctness and reliability of LLVM by fixing known issues - #6 by fhahn)

Hopefully we will be able to slowly reduce those numbers, which should put us in a position to be slightly stricter with release-blocking issues.