From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Next release from master Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:45:45 -0800 Message-ID: <569D5D09.3020109@dancol.org> References: <83a8o2evc0.fsf@gnu.org> <569D59C7.8030602@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UOwbjXjQrLiDxejarbhEXpd1B2ljV764W" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453153567 23045 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2016 21:46:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 21:46:07 +0000 (UTC) To: Eli Zaretskii , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 18 22:46:06 2016 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 1aLHcc-0006mq-7v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 22:45:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLHcb-0002Kk-Q5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:45:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38360) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLHcX-0002KS-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:45:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLHcW-000554-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:45:53 -0500 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3]:49651) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLHcW-00054T-I0; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:45:52 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dancol.org; s=x; h=Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject; bh=lenil7tSteLM4caS70PLShME/mvNRSUl+t9l7a8dl6E=; b=Hanym9vemP6Iop8F0TsXg2JHM5cxIY6OQ6z5IR6Yhex9moQvVp6XQT0sWENPZFYZQyVnOm+QrTuWrheYGTKy67Ny4udvgU2O3tHroiuTXzJQiQXMy6m6ebUEVsaT20P/MxOnjImxdJz+drjz4l6GmIL/JLKsD2WxsxBpXH0OEYCz2Kmti3P1T07gKXfW/1NpPSomKrjyiX7hI3VE6FNWJv6V9hHsHgHjQJrK4adQiV3WZZ/Mh1t98M8Vsrqb2tlP+slWEoHKnxy1qTayFZfFHI0E9U1pOHMkTMEdQE8Fj7nUN5Pc2dTX+POFs+JE9RU20LqqaIY7SiFgS/SXccNUSw==; Original-Received: from [2620:10d:c090:180::1:9578] (helo=[IPv6:2620:10d:c081:1110::106e]) by dancol.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aLHcV-0003HQ-UM; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:45:51 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3 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:198297 Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --UOwbjXjQrLiDxejarbhEXpd1B2ljV764W Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 01/18/2016 01:43 PM, John Wiegley wrote: >>>>>> Daniel Colascione writes: >=20 >> I'd be happy with switching to a less-like release scheme and >> incrementing a single number. Do minor releases even make sense anymor= e? >=20 > I think so. If we only increment major numbers, there is no sense of wh= en big > things happen, and or how much one should expect APIs to change between= > releases. We try to keep APIs backward-compatible anyway though. In a single-number, time-based release system, we'd just announce that we're deprecating some API, and some time later, actually do it. --UOwbjXjQrLiDxejarbhEXpd1B2ljV764W Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWnV0JAAoJEN4WImmbpWBlSnUP/iaYhuSlgvEqVAG0uLZ0MPeN vPRwmIQirSSqZZLNjXuQcPbQGwK2AJbmZmR67j+Pw0x7q+W0ifCzX42yBLJPXA9v H86rGAqBqh7zEBUdxK2UXxziR27M5V4v2x4KG1jpZkV/WRFc2DqGZkiCT+iyeXXh YK93CL4Fuxdp+BJLrgIt5F2LnvqkrFvQaIRqVQKnV+zyQ0lN6p2+E7Y6AEx2FAXA v52ovaGYM5WYY+iYNpTA06foYKbV9ly7Pu3nHvUbUZgR0D6BWwK3cDlEtcCpMGLw RgzDt27CWB1lmz64+TmBLtufnWyU4MS7/Gw9hl62MmoNNF+veM2ttd7BCRellbIG 4Cn7yWuGNaYyTwCbjZfdgS8SEhgE6yHMPU8oC0OMvHDKKO+3jj8glwRx2TCz/1wG 1F2zh5aAgS259Dhku+3MnKcgE9YNr3FID79ki7heJadlfISOpSEc3ePjplz5lsyy n3LmlEi5gPFxZlRPfol24uNzVoqLZ/NVQ+9XN64K/wpGb+6BnPS+AqtVq0FAeqt8 7RwB+cjUG531XFrxBRJbSFfpPB1kdE9ehKQuX3CW9FsbzKOgfPiUf25ED4LvtiwK XymNkNXg4QfmnEl4H89DxcQJbNywkXXOJNVnWtlaMNrNj4+jyPPO+n/1ZxARa1GX CnEleludGHGvS9DHaPKx =YNr6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UOwbjXjQrLiDxejarbhEXpd1B2ljV764W--