From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs-24.4's release
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 21:37:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141016213754.GH3421@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d29r66zk.fsf@maru2.md5i.com>
Hello again, Michael.
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 05:26:55PM -0400, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:
> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> > Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> Barring any major problem encountered til then, we intend to cut the
> >> 24.4 release candidate this Friday, and (assuming nothing went wrong
> >> with that candidate) make the release official the subsequent Monday.
> > PS Just in case there was any doubt, this means:
> > after the release candidate is made, do not commit ANYTHING to emacs-24
> > without asking here first.
> > In fact I would really appreciate it if people do not commit anything to
> > emacs-24 after 0000 UTC on Friday.
> Please consider the following bug a major bug that needs to be fixed for
> the new release:
> Bug#18749: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18749
Ah. One of _those_ bugs. ;-(
> Sorry for the late bug report, but I only recently managed to create an
> example for this bug that could be replicated easily. I would be very
> sad if this bug (which I have encountered frequently as a heisenbug) is
> not fixed for the new release, as it can make programming in C under
> Emacs extraordinarily painful at times.
With all the info you've provided, it should be straightforward to knock
this one down in at most a few hours. I don't want to start on it now
(it being almost midnight in central Europe), but I'll get cracking on it
early tomorrow morning.
> --
> Michael Welsh Duggan
> (md5i@md5i.com)
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-16 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-12 4:51 Emacs-24.4's release Stefan Monnier
2014-10-13 16:42 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-14 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-14 18:28 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-14 20:20 ` David Reitter
2014-10-14 20:25 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-15 10:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-10-15 16:11 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-16 21:26 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2014-10-16 21:37 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-16 21:44 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-17 0:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-17 4:43 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-17 5:26 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-18 9:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-10-18 17:56 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-16 21:37 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-10-14 21:54 Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-14 22:15 ` David Reitter
2014-10-14 22:49 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-15 0:39 ` David Reitter
2015-02-05 0:31 ` David Reitter
2015-02-05 14:56 ` Jan D.
2015-02-05 15:06 ` David Reitter
2015-02-05 15:33 ` Jan D.
2015-02-05 15:36 ` David Reitter
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