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: Next release Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 11:32:56 +0100 Message-ID: <48199C58.9070503@gnu.org> References: <18457.37369.262079.668907@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> 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: ger.gmane.org 1209638054 29993 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2008 10:34:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 10:34:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 01 12:34:50 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1JrW7l-0003gA-9W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 12:34:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49004 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrW71-0004F1-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 06:34:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrW6O-00049j-7Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 06:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrW6H-00043q-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 06:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57607 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrW6F-000437-VO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 06:33:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrW63-00066E-KL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 06:33:15 -0400 Original-X-Trace: 72286234/mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnEFAMI4GUhTQxds/2dsb2JhbACBU6sK X-IP-Direction: IN Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO wanchan.jasonrumney.net) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 01 May 2008 11:33:02 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.249.27] (chiko.jasonrumney.net [192.168.249.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82FC1D53; Thu, 1 May 2008 11:32:37 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <18457.37369.262079.668907@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=8086879D X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:96276 Archived-At: Nick Roberts wrote: > Apart from a massive commit for org-mode, development has pretty much died off > on the EMACS_22_BASE branch. Unless a security release is needed, I hope that > the next release, no matter how long it takes, comes from the trunk as that's > where most people (including myself) appear to be putting most bug-fixes now. > In this respect even billing a release from EMACS_22_BASE as a bug-fix release > can only create a bad impression. > If bugs are present in EMACS_22_BASE, they should be fixed there. Why would releasing 22.3 create a bad impression, especially if Emacs 23 ends up taking 5 years or more again?