From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Checkout the sources for the release branch Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:07:39 +0200 Message-ID: <465563EB.9070400@gmail.com> References: <4654BBC8.7010201@gmail.com> <4654C2CF.1060402@gnu.org> <4654C5AA.9000204@gmail.com> <4654CC27.3000908@gmail.com> <87odkbunni.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4654CF9B.40309@gmail.com> <4654D337.8070602@gnu.org> <4654D44C.2000303@gmail.com> <4654D643.70107@gnu.org> <4654D8EC.5080802@gmail.com> <86odkabtlb.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> 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 1180001270 29921 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2007 10:07:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 24 12:07:46 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 1HrAET-00008l-QJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 12:07:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrAEV-0007wh-WD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrAES-0007wZ-D2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrAER-0007wN-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrAEQ-0007wK-SN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HrAEP-00066Q-QD; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:63103 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1HrAEO-0002De-6T; Thu, 24 May 2007 12:07:40 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <86odkabtlb.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000743-1, 2007-05-24), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HrAEO-0002De-6T. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HrAEO-0002De-6T 0e0b2e91933e099999dbf067ab016032 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:71712 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > >> Jason Rumney wrote: >>> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: >>>> The information about EMACS_22_BASE is specific to Emacs. Where would >>>> you suggest to put that information? >>>> >>> It is probably useful to list the active branches somewhere, but that is >>> a different matter than handholding users through the exact CVS commands >>> to use in every circumstance. >> I do not think there is anything wrong with handholding per se as long >> as it does not lead to cluttering of the information. >> >> I think the way that saves most time should be used. And then the >> normal thinking may apply: there are probably many times more readers >> than writers. (And many of them can potentially be helpful with >> Emacs.) > > People who want to be helpful in pretesting should get the pretest > tarballs. That's what they are for. > > People who use CVS can be expected to acquire a minimum of knowledge > for that. And how should they get that?