From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:58:44 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <01c4a717$Blat.v2.2.2$46016740@zahav.net.il> References: <1096291271.415813c757a26@imp6-q.free.fr> <20040927134714.GA20012@fencepost> <87hdphx91c.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87655wswkv.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <01c4a6f8$Blat.v2.2.2$f6ef61c0@zahav.net.il> <20040930143404.GB2296@fencepost> <01c4a703$Blat.v2.2.2$9a627220@zahav.net.il> <1096559619.415c2c031623c@imp4-q.free.fr> <01c4a707$Blat.v2.2.2$99a73ba0@zahav.net.il> <87ekkjd66m.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096567331 20955 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 18:02:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:02:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jmarant@free.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 20:01:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CD5Fb-0001AB-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:01:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD5Lz-00059o-P3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:08:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD5Lr-00059U-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD5Lr-000598-31 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD5Lq-00058y-Sr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.15] (helo=balder.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CD5FL-0002sC-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.152.240]) by balder.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id DUR40794 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:01:29 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Rob Browning X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.2.2 In-reply-to: <87ekkjd66m.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (message from Rob Browning on Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:20:49 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27736 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27736 > Cc: jmarant@free.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Rob Browning > Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:20:49 -0500 > > I can understand both the argument that these releases should be > tested just as fully as any other release, and the alternative > argument that they should be treated as much lighter-weight. > > The latter argument usually claims that since the changes that go into > these releases are much more controlled (and much smaller) than other > releases, and since it's relatively easy to follow up a problematic > minor release with a repair, then the minor releases won't normally > need as much testing as the more major releases. I agree that bugfix releases should need less testing, but still we do have a pretest phase for them.