From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Next release Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 11:07:10 +1200 Message-ID: <18458.19742.178728.98303@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <18457.37369.262079.668907@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <48199C58.9070503@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209685712 21236 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2008 23:48:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 23:48:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 02 01:49:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JriWP-0004Ss-RI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 01:49:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43981 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JriVi-0000vz-Rs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 19:48:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JriVf-0000vu-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 19:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JriVe-0000vb-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 19:48:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36807 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JriVd-0000vY-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 19:48:17 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JriVZ-0002SP-8U; Thu, 01 May 2008 19:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (103.31.255.123.static.snap.net.nz [123.255.31.103]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89ED3DA461; Fri, 2 May 2008 11:29:39 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 599298FC6D; Fri, 2 May 2008 11:07:11 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <48199C58.9070503@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.2.50.2 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96300 Archived-At: > If bugs are present in EMACS_22_BASE, they should be fixed there. They should but the reality is that they aren't. It's more work to commit changes to two separate branches and there's the complication of the automatic/manual merging process. Since there might not even be a release from EMACS_22_BASE, I suspect people make a value judgement on their time. > Why > would releasing 22.3 create a bad impression, especially if Emacs 23 > ends up taking 5 years or more again? It was the same with 21.3. It looks like there has been less development on Emacs than is actually the case and, in some ways, at the time of the release, the trunk will be less buggy. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob