From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature freezes and Emacs 25 Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 10:46:46 +0200 Message-ID: <8337wiqjrd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56259FDD.8040401@dancol.org> <87zizeme8k.fsf@tromey.com> <5625B166.3080104@dancol.org> <86zizdczhp.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <871tc315y3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83k2pvqg0l.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9kyqkez.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446886034 31929 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2015 08:47:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 08:47:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 07 09:47:06 2015 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 1Zuz9N-0006oy-BZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 09:47:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuz9M-0004sp-DX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:47:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59241) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuz9J-0004sh-Rk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:47:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuz9I-0002nt-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:47:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:48299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuz9C-0002iS-CU; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:46:54 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXF00600S0PHE00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 10:46:53 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXF0064ESE4DD60@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 10:46:53 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87h9kyqkez.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:193503 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 09:32:36 +0100 > > > Let us officially freeze in one weeks, next Friday, Nov 13 at 11:59 PM > > UTC, so that any ready, last minute features can get in before 25.1 is > > closed. > > That sounds like a free-for-all. With the development cycles of Emacs, > rushing in last-minute features might come at costs of half a year. Why is that a problem? We are in no rush to have another major release. On the contrary, IMO having a major release with no major new features is not a good idea. Emacs 25.1 shouldn't be anything like 24.6 could have been.