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: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:12:12 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <01c4ab84$Blat.v2.2.2$b64192c0@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> <87wty6jee3.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 1097054182 21321 80.91.229.6 (6 Oct 2004 09:16:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:16:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 06 11:16:11 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 1CF7u7-0007M9-00 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:16:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CF80n-0002cx-As for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 05:23:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CF80b-0002cg-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 05:22:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CF80a-0002cU-BD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 05:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CF80a-0002cK-4S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 05:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.15] (helo=balder.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CF7th-0008Gi-Ms for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 05:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.143.237]) by balder.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id DUU58419 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:15:23 +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: <87wty6jee3.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (message from Rob Browning on Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:40:36 -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:27989 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27989 > From: Rob Browning > Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:40:36 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > So we wanted to see if together with emacs-devel, we could come up > with a way to make those releases more publically available, so that > others can benefit from the improvements on a shorter timescale than > that of traditional emacs releases. > > One way to do that might be for Emacs CVS to have a "branch" (or > whatever) that only allowed *really* uncontroversial bugfixes, and > hence was supposed to be nearly ready for release all the time. That's how Emacs is being maintained since v21.1: there's a bug-fix branch where only safe changes are being made. The last version released from that branch is 21.3. How frequent can releases be made from that branch is another question, and the answer depends mostly on how the pretest phase is handled.