From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: pmr@pajato.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rmail mbox-format branch
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:42:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c4972b$Blat.v2.2.2$64073b80@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ekla8l1y.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (storm@cua.dk)
> Cc: pmr@pajato.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:39:37 +0200
>
> It will probably take a month or two for the emacs developers
> to fix bugs in the unicode branch before starting pretest on 22.1 --
>
> in the meantime, we can run a pretest for 21.5 bug-fix release if
> necessary.
Okay, but that means we cannot ``immediately'' start pretesting 22.1.
> > Experience also shows that a pretest of a major new release takes
> > several months. 21.1 took more than 6 months, IIRC, and it was used
> > by more people before the pretest than the Unicode branch is now.
>
> 21.1 was developed within a "closed group". 21.4 has been developed
> in a wide open forum since day 1, and I think that CVS emacs is used
> by MANY users everyday already -- and as such has got more pre-testing
> already than 21.1 ever got!
>
> So I'm pretty optimistic re. the length of the 21.4 pretest.
I was talking about the length of the pretest of 22.1, not of 21.4.
The unicode branch is developed by a small group as well, I think it's
even smaller than the one who used 21.1 during its development.
> But if we merge the rmail/mbox branch to trunk now, I'm much less
> optimistic :-(
I don't understand why. Most Emacs suers don't use RMAIL anyway, so
please explain the reasons for your pessimism.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-10 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-09 4:02 Rmail mbox-format branch Richard Stallman
2004-09-09 14:13 ` Stefan
2004-09-09 14:44 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2004-09-09 15:25 ` Stefan
2004-09-09 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-09 22:19 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-10 7:36 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-10 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-10 9:38 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-10 10:41 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-10 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-10 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-10 10:39 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-10 11:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-09-10 12:38 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-10 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-11 23:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-11 10:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-11 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-11 16:45 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-11 2:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-09-11 18:46 ` Proof-reading manuals (was Re: Rmail mbox-format branch) Kim F. Storm
2004-09-15 1:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-09-16 11:19 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-18 22:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-09-19 11:00 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-19 16:29 ` Proof-reading manuals Kim F. Storm
2004-09-11 10:50 ` Rmail mbox-format branch Richard Stallman
2004-09-11 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-11 16:57 ` Stefan
2004-09-13 6:59 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-15 10:25 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-09-11 13:50 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-09-13 23:04 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-10 17:41 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-10 20:27 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-09-12 9:09 ` Richard Stallman
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