From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Manual policy (Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 65) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:55:34 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20071010225534.GA1955@thyrsus.com> References: <20071010211743.5104873931@grelber.thyrsus.com> <20071010214419.GA1297@thyrsus.com> <470D4D3E.3030603@gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192056917 12224 80.91.229.12 (10 Oct 2007 22:55:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:55:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 11 00:55:14 2007 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 1IfkSP-0008Tx-8k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:55:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfkSJ-0007Ik-AG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IfkSG-0007H5-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:55:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IfkSE-0007Ed-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfkSE-0007EZ-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:55:02 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IfkSA-0001o0-7s; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:54:58 -0400 Original-Received: by snark (Postfix, from userid 23) id 5E4C238032; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:55:35 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <470D4D3E.3030603@gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:80558 Archived-At: Jason Rumney : > 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. -- Eric S. Raymond