From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roland Winkler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:13:56 -0500 Message-ID: <877ep5euh7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lgdpphmm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87vacqcy89.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523977952 12307 195.159.176.226 (17 Apr 2018 15:12:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:12:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 17 17:12:27 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f8SHT-000362-Ca for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:12:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44538 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8SJZ-0007W4-WA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:14:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8SIy-0007VD-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:14:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8SIv-0005p1-SC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45920) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8SIv-0005ov-OK; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:13:57 -0400 Original-Received: from lukas.physics.niu.edu ([131.156.224.124]:46602 helo=lukas) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f8SIv-0003nG-Dh; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:13:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:07:46 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224704 Archived-At: On Tue, Apr 17 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote: > FWIW, currently GNU ELPA supports this in the following way: a new GNU > ELPA package is only created once the "Version:" of a package is > bumped. So you can add experimental code to elpa.git's master branch > without worrying about its effect on the distributed package and when > that code is ready you can just bump the "Version:" header to cause a > new release. It would be nice to be able to go beyond that. I am grateful if adventurous users are willing to test the experimental code. So it would be nice if there was infrastructure that somehow allowed these users to subscribe to the experimental code, similar to how the development of core emacs benefits from users using the master branch.