From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Next release from master Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:42:34 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <56A1890A.8010500@cs.ucla.edu> References: <8qegda3kfg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56A185D8.9030807@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453426976 3641 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2016 01:42:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 01:42:56 +0000 (UTC) To: Dmitry Gutov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 22 02:42:47 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 1aMQkQ-0004TH-5x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 02:42:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50342 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMQkP-0000Fd-6K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:42:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMQkK-0000Eg-S3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:42:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMQkG-0006Pr-Rw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:42:40 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:41884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMQkG-0006Pl-LX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:42:36 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D182160817; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:42:35 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id Vqqqt4eVGMN2; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:42:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CF0B160E55; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:42:34 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id O5007LFlRr-J; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:42:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 64CB0160817; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:42:34 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 In-Reply-To: <56A185D8.9030807@yandex.ru> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:198545 Archived-At: On 01/21/2016 05:28 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > Why not get back to the simpler scheme? I also don't see the need for three common development branches. Emacs developers are already spread pretty thin with two. I know of a GNU project that has three such branches: Automake. The branches are called 'master', 'minor', and 'micro', and have roughly the three roles that John suggested. My own impression is that the extra complexity of the three branches discouraged contributors ("which branch should this patch go into?", that sort of thing). Automake development is currently moribund.