From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: when emacs 22.1 release will ready? Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:38:00 +0100 Message-ID: <4635B8F8.9020309@gnu.org> References: <259495020704291337s35dd584fi3b7ef1dd511b11d4@mail.gmail.com> <4635B7F9.8090909@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177925892 1764 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2007 09:38:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:38:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alex Ott , emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 30 11:38:11 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 1HiSKg-00022e-EH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:38:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiSQq-0002iK-BE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:44:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HiSQn-0002iF-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:44:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HiSQl-0002i2-QE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:44:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiSQl-0002hz-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HiSKa-0005Ol-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:38:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (host81-149-25-51.in-addr.btopenworld.com [81.149.25.51]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE0B51F09; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:38:03 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) In-Reply-To: <4635B7F9.8090909@gmail.com> X-detected-kernel: 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:70398 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > What do they do to keep control over the quality? I guess they are > using a lot of unit testing for the kernel, or? The quality of Emacs hasn't changed considerably over the past 3 years. What would change it is to do a proper pretest cycle where only regressions are fixed with the aim of reaching zero code changes after a few pretest releases and releasing at that point.