From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Manual policy (Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 65)
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:55:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071010225534.GA1955@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <470D4D3E.3030603@gnu.org>
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>:
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > So it's only been over a year since the last point release. I'm not
> > hugely reassured.
>
> I'm not sure why stability is seen as such a bad thing these days,
> especially for a revision control tool.
Stability is good. Signs of life and responsiveness from the dev team
are, however, just as important. I want to have reasonable confidence
that someone is alive to deal with bug reports.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-10 22:55 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20071010211743.5104873931@grelber.thyrsus.com>
2007-10-10 21:44 ` Manual policy (Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 65) Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-10 22:00 ` Manoj Srivastava
2007-10-10 22:07 ` Jason Rumney
2007-10-10 22:55 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2007-10-12 18:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-11 14:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 15:03 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-11 15:05 ` David Kastrup
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