From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Next pretest, and branching plans
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:49:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fx4vwuvc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557EE28DF6994313B6A4990FEBBD387A@us.oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <sdl.web@gmail.com>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:35:02 -0800
>
> > > Perhaps more importantly, there will be fewer (far fewer,
> > > IMO) new bug reports from Windows users for the latest code.
> > >
> > > Instead of a pretest, you will, in effect, just wait until
> > > after the release to get such bug reports. The purpose
> > > of the pretest will thus be defeated, except for those
> > > Windows pretesters who are willing to build Emacs.
> >
> > It's not clear what statistics you have to back this up.
>
> To back what up?
The claim that the purpose of the pretest will be defeated.
> There can be many reasons why someone cannot or does not wish to build Emacs.
We are here to help overcome whatever difficulties you have.
> And if building it is so simple, and you have already built the pretest, then
> why not post your binary of it?
Building is simple, but packaging and uploading is not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-20 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-18 11:02 Next pretest, and branching plans Chong Yidong
2010-02-18 15:29 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-20 12:25 ` Leo
2010-02-20 13:05 ` Sean Sieger
2010-02-20 17:02 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-28 12:36 ` Sean Sieger
2010-02-28 15:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-02-20 16:52 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-20 17:35 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-20 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-20 20:39 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-20 20:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-02-21 0:11 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-02-21 4:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-20 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-20 18:35 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-20 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-02-20 18:36 ` Chong Yidong
2010-02-20 18:40 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-20 18:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-02-20 19:15 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-20 19:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-02-18 23:57 ` Emacs Manuals Richard Stallman
2010-02-20 2:46 ` smc
[not found] <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <87ljemdzxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
2010-02-23 5:31 ` Next pretest, and branching plans Jason Rumney
2010-02-23 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-23 21:12 ` Jason Rumney
2010-02-24 6:04 ` Richard Stallman
2010-02-24 13:34 ` Sean Sieger
2010-02-24 15:05 ` Davis Herring
2010-02-24 15:18 ` Sean Sieger
2010-02-24 14:05 ` Chong Yidong
2010-02-25 14:26 ` Richard Stallman
2010-02-27 16:52 ` Johan Bockgård
2010-03-03 3:52 ` Glenn Morris
2010-03-05 0:31 ` Johan Bockgård
2010-03-13 3:10 ` Christoph
2010-03-13 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-13 14:54 ` Christoph
2010-03-13 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-13 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-14 2:38 ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-14 2:50 ` Christoph
2010-03-14 3:07 ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-14 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-17 0:29 ` Christoph
2010-03-17 4:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-17 12:44 ` Jason Rumney
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