From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.mail.mh-e.devel Subject: Re: Release branch schedule Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:38:32 -0400 Message-ID: <878vpduw93.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <7600.1316911481@olgas.newt.com> <87ty81l9s9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <12320.1316917849@olgas.newt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316921924 21647 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2011 03:38:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 03:38:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 25 05:38:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R7fY7-0005a5-3i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 05:38:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60112 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7fY6-0005js-Mu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:38:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50413) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7fY3-0005jj-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:38:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7fY2-0004Wh-Qf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:38:35 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.145]:57968) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7fY2-0004WZ-NU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:38:34 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp-128-36-14-81.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.81]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p8P3cXok015640 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:38:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <12320.1316917849@olgas.newt.com> (Bill Wohler's message of "Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:30:49 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.145 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.145 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:144263 gmane.mail.mh-e.devel:13303 Archived-At: Bill Wohler writes: > By "open for business", I meant adding new, possibly destabilizing, > features. Surely this won't be the case if you're cutting pretests > from the trunk. Right? Right, the trunk should continue to be used for bugfixes only. It will be opened for general changes only after the release branch is cut, sometime late in the pretest and shortly before the release.