[ACTIVITY] 9-13 January 2017

== Progress == * Validation - improvements and bug fixes: ABE #2764. and make_docs problem for gcc-4.9 builds) Enhanced abe validation to check builds of gcc-4.9, 5 and 6. make-and-test-release now works. buildbench now works

* GCC - Committed fix for pr78253 - discussions on releases (packaging, process improvements) - a few backports for our 6.2-2017.01 snapshot

* misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, ....) - bugzilla followup - moving from ex40-01 to dev-01 - Connect registration: on-going

== Next == * ABE & Jenkins jobs patches reviews and bug fixes * GCC: - bug fixing