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: Future release schedules Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:16:59 +0200 Message-ID: <838u5s5q2c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831tbqc4pc.fsf@gnu.org> <9ta8qb5gcc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83egfn9nmp.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnar9mcd.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3jm7zw1.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh9tkby8.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <83wptd7mif.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvu96qjk.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9kg5yzi.fsf@gnu.org> <83egfk5wwz.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnao5w4s.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448054265 19157 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2015 21:17:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:17:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, deng@randomsample.de, lekktu@gmail.com, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, schwab@suse.de To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 20 22:17:36 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 1Zzt3j-0004KL-GM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 22:17:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49904 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzt3j-0004xX-0Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:17:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47368) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzt3W-0004xK-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:17:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzt3S-0002K3-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:17:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:47601) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzt3S-0002Jr-JZ; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:17:14 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NY400L00T5QWN00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:17:11 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NY400LT4TSNXE10@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:17:11 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:194901 Archived-At: > From: John Wiegley > Cc: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, deng@randomsample.de, lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, schwab@suse.de > Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:14:46 -0800 > > I'd like to cut new major releases once a year, even if they only introduce a > few new features. > [...] > I'm not sure this requires a radical change in process and procedure. I think it does, because currently putting out a major release takes between 6 and 10 months. That leaves no time for working on any significant new features, because who if not the most dedicated developers are the driving force behind making a new major version release-grade stable? We don't have enough manpower to divide the efforts between 2 branches while working on a major release.