From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-24.4's release Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 21:37:54 +0000 Message-ID: <20141016213754.GH3421@acm.acm> References: <17bnpfvs35.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87d29r66zk.fsf@maru2.md5i.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413495843 6492 80.91.229.3 (16 Oct 2014 21:44:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 21:44:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Welsh Duggan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 23:43:55 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xespu-00007O-3D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 23:43:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54248 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xespt-0005K8-Od for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:43:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40488) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xespm-0005Jq-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:43:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xespb-0007Np-Sg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:43:46 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:22295 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xespb-0007NX-G9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:43:35 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 74650 invoked by uid 3782); 16 Oct 2014 21:43:34 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9518029.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.128.41]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 23:43:32 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 16925 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Oct 2014 21:37:54 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d29r66zk.fsf@maru2.md5i.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175493 Archived-At: Hello again, Michael. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 05:26:55PM -0400, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote: > Glenn Morris 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).