From: "Jérôme Marant" <jmarant@free.fr>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>
Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.]
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:01:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096362095.4159286fdb4c7@imp4-q.free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy8ivrdzz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Quoting Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
> >> Actually, we already have "the RC branch" from which 21.2 and 21.3 came.
> >> So I agree to the extent that "Debian patches" should be applied to the RC
> >> branch of Emacs rather than just to the Debian Emacs package (assuming the
> >> fixes are sufficiently clean, of course).
>
> > It is much easier to create a new branch for every stable release: you
> > can then avoid the pain of CVS merges for the same cost (I'm not
> > inventing anything, GCC people do this).
>
> OK, it seems we're mis-communicating because I assume you know things you
> don't. "The" RC branch is the branch that's created when a new major
> release is made. I.e. when 21.1 was released, a new branch was created
> (EMACS_21_1_RC). From this branch were cut the bugfix releases 21.2 and
> 21.3. When 21.4 will be release a new RC branch will be created.
I knew about this branch but I've been confused by 21.2 and 21.3 being
bugfix releases. This is why we do propose a different versioning scheme
for such releases.
> I.e. right now there's a single RC branch for the simple reason that there's
> only been a single major release since we switched to CVS. But there will
> be more (but obviously at any point in time only one RC branch is active,
> because we don't have the manpower to continue releasing bugfix releases of
> several major versions).
>
> I.e. what you're suggesting is "what we already do" except that you're
> proposing to be more actively involved in maintaining the RC branch (and you
> suggest we call the revisions 21.1.N rather than 21.2, 21.3, ...). I think
> that any separately maintained set of patches is a waste of resouces, so of
> course I'd welcome it if Debian put their patches directly in the RC branch
> rather.
This is exactly what we offer to do.
Cheers,
--
Jérôme Marant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-28 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-27 7:37 [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Richard Stallman
2004-09-27 9:40 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-27 11:48 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-27 13:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-27 13:24 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-27 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-28 9:01 ` Jérôme Marant [this message]
2004-09-27 22:55 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-28 20:57 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-27 13:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-27 13:21 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-27 13:47 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-28 12:37 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-29 17:46 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-29 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-29 19:29 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-29 20:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-29 20:22 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 0:53 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-09-30 1:25 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-30 15:40 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-09-30 17:02 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-30 19:32 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-09-30 1:56 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-30 7:42 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 9:36 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 14:32 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-30 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-30 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 14:36 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 15:00 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 16:33 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-30 17:37 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-30 19:39 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-10-03 1:18 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-30 20:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-30 20:46 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 21:40 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 21:33 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 21:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-30 21:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-30 22:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 22:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-01 16:43 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-03 14:32 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-30 0:09 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-30 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 14:32 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 14:34 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-30 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 15:53 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 17:20 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-30 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-30 20:42 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 21:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-01 7:22 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-01 12:35 ` Stefan
2004-10-01 14:49 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-01 16:25 ` Stefan
2004-10-01 20:31 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-03 14:33 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-03 16:20 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-03 14:33 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-01 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 21:36 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 19:09 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-01 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-10-01 21:47 ` [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacsreleases.] Lennart Borgman
2004-09-30 16:53 ` [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Rob Browning
2004-09-30 19:15 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-09-30 20:26 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-03 14:20 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-10-04 22:40 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-06 5:28 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-06 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 14:55 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-30 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 15:15 ` Rob Browning
2004-09-30 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 15:58 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-09-30 17:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-30 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-30 18:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-30 21:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-02 20:47 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-09-30 15:59 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-01 6:24 ` Francesco Potorti`
2004-10-04 22:58 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-05 8:34 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-05 15:01 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-05 16:18 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-05 16:34 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-05 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-06 8:39 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-05 11:26 ` Stefan
2004-10-05 11:40 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-06 11:09 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-06 11:46 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-05 14:39 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-05 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-05 15:28 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-05 15:32 ` Rob Browning
2004-10-06 8:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-27 12:17 ` Kenichi Handa
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