[platform-releng-dev] Please take note of bug 483395 (Don't ignore unavo

["David M Williams" <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There was a change made in our builds right
before the year-end holidays, so I thought I would point out the change
now -- in case anyone missed it. 

In bug
483395 we express our desire to
remove -warn:unavoidableGenericProblems from our *default* code compile
options. But, it turned out there are still too many bundles with 1 or
3 such warnings to make that feasible. As a compromise we have set it,
for now, as removed from the default settings for N-builds so those warnings
"show through", but for I-builds we leave it in the defaults
to not miss any more important warnings. So after the I-build today, please
compare its warnings with the  latest
N-build warnings.

We hope all component owners can manage
to do simple and easy clean up before M5 so we can change the default by
then. 

There are a few bundles that we understand
can not be cleaned up (where there are thousands of such warnings), and
that is fine -- those can be special cases. 

See also comment
12, where it appears many people
have overridden the default settings when they probably no need to? If
there is a need to, perhaps you could spell that out in bug 483395 and
link to a bug for your component that explains problems and plans. 

This work does not take priority over
functional or "fix" work ... I just wanted everyone to be aware
of it and ask you to keep it in mind so you could plan a few relaxing hours
:) cleaning up any easy-to-fix warnings. If any turn out not to be easy,
perhaps that deserves further discussion at the weekly status meeting?

Thanks,