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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: why bugs only fixed in trunk?
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:44:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50DA568E.4080505@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ehidtxsu.fsf@gmail.com>

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On 12/25/2012 5:19 PM, Leo wrote:
> One of the incentives to report bugs in the pretest is to have them
> squashed before the release. Unfortunately it seems most bugs are just
> fixed in trunk (which could mean wait another year for the fix) even if
> reported against a pretest build.
> 
> Is there an implicitly agreed practice here?

The trunk is in stabalization mode right now: only critical bugfixes and
regressions can go in. The sooner we get 24.3 out the door, the sooner we can
release a 24.4 with all the bugfixes you mention.




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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-26  1:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-26  1:19 why bugs only fixed in trunk? Leo
2012-12-26  1:44 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2012-12-26 12:43   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-26 16:34     ` Jay Belanger
2012-12-26 16:59       ` Bastien
2012-12-26 17:56         ` Daniel Colascione
2012-12-27  1:02           ` Leo
2012-12-27  3:48             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-26  2:37 ` Chong Yidong
2012-12-26  4:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-26  6:28 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-26  7:00   ` Leo
2012-12-26  6:45 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-26 10:59 ` Bastien
2012-12-26 12:04   ` Leo

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