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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: Branch freezing for release
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 15:24:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d0lrmmww.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-9ewk607f7pOcjaNixTiy=Pf1-jCbNqGLboyoMoE928jg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Fri, 12 Apr 2019 06:18:33 -0400)

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 06:18:33 -0400
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 
> 	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > I'd hesitate to fix the number at 90 (or any other specific number),
> > because sometimes .90 is not close enough.  We could say .100, but
> > AFAIR that happened only once or twice in the history, so it would not
> > be helpful.  The problem here is that the number is not determined by
> > how close we think we are to the release, its correlation with that is
> > very weak.
> 
> Yes, the only way to know is to follow emacs-devel, so for someone who
> doesn't follow the list, asking at anything above .90 is the only safe
> recommendation, right?

It's fine with me, but it would have meant that the emacs-26 branch
was frozen from the second pretest, which probably is too
conservative.  I don't remember when we last started pretest with a
number below 90, maybe only when Emacs 21 was in its pretest.  But if
others don't mind, neither do I.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-12 12:24 UTC|newest]

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2019-04-10  8:57                       ` Branch freezing for release (WAS: bug#34776) Noam Postavsky
2019-04-10  9:21                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-10 16:16                           ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-10 16:40                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-10 16:59                               ` Branch freezing for release Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-10 17:12                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-10 17:39                                   ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-10 18:31                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-11 14:02                                       ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-22 13:03                                       ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-22 13:14                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-22 15:18                                           ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-10 17:56                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-10 18:26                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-10 18:54                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-10 19:19                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-10 20:16                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-04-11  0:12                                             ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-11 13:52                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-12  1:03                                                 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-12  7:04                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-12 10:18                                                     ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-12 12:23                                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-12 12:24                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-04-12 14:14                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-04-10 13:14                         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-10 13:47                           ` Andreas Schwab
2019-04-10 15:03                           ` Eli Zaretskii

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