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: patch vs. overwrite in bzr Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:57:37 +0300 Message-ID: <83y5qab28e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k42cwys8.fsf@gnu.org> <87limhuldm.fsf@gnu.org> <871uo7g4j6.fsf@gnu.org> <87iphjhbm8.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87398lgrat.fsf_-_@niu.edu> <871uo5c7r0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87pqbpj5j3.fsf@altern.org> <87aa2szgig.fsf@gnu.org> <87ehs4yrhz.fsf@gnu.org> <83k41vctyg.fsf@gnu.org> <83aa2rcnww.fsf@gnu.org> <8362dedgcb.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333641467 18119 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2012 15:57:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 15:57:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 05 17:57:43 2012 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 1SFp48-00050Q-Kk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:57:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFp46-0004tZ-US for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:57:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46749) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFp40-0004t8-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:57:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFp3q-0000Nj-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:35813) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFp3q-0000NT-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M2000C00K69BG00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:57:21 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.252.114]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M2000BJ2KBKX4P0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:57:21 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:149405 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:24:37 +0200 > > If Emacs shifted to a "continuous development" model (with branches > being forked off for stabilisation now and then), that might change > ... stuff. That might not be practical, though, as previously pointed > out. Virtually all the developers would "live" in the trunk version of > Emacs, so the forked-off stable version would get less love and testing. > > I don't know. Would it be worth trying to shifting to that model after > Emacs 24.1? We could try, but I doubt it will work. For it to work, we need enough people on board to continuously take care of all the important parts of the package (including the documentation and other mundane tasks). What happens now is that the same few need to do all of it, which precludes the model you hope for.