From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Angeli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pretest 22.0.100 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 15:45:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87abw3tvh6.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> References: <873b22nd3f.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <17992.54265.248694.83627@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <464C4F64.2030402@gnu.org> <85wsz7y4k0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <464C57DE.2020906@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179409540 16505 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2007 13:45:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:45:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 17 15:45:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HogIS-0001up-Hn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 15:45:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HogQY-0002Ui-Fn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 09:53:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HogQH-0002N8-7u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 09:53:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HogQG-0002Md-FA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 09:53:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HogQG-0002MZ-37 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 09:53:40 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HogI5-0007qe-Gm; Thu, 17 May 2007 09:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.165.18.3] (helo=neutrino.caeruleus.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKxQS-1HogI03yBH-00087Z; Thu, 17 May 2007 15:45:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <464C57DE.2020906@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Thu, 17 May 2007 14:25:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.0.96 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+A7qSODKSjSZJD4LFb9+qA6W0KX341E4ba0pw VuL++xt9st48XXAOpaer7wIO7HlfZFydIwAzWty6oOMcBja4bG BhEXT+2I/0b+xbv88WOkg== X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71238 Archived-At: * Jason Rumney (2007-05-17) writes: > After 18.9 came 18.10, likewise with 19.9 and 19.10. There is no good > reason to change the rules only for pretests. ,----[ http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Test-Releases.html ] | In this method, if you are about to release version 4.6 but you want to | do a pretest first, call it 4.5.90. If you need a second pretest, call | it 4.5.91, and so on. If you are really unlucky and ten pretests are not | enough, after 4.5.99 you could advance to 4.5.990 and so on. (You could | also use 4.5.100, but 990 has the advantage of sorting in the right | order.) `---- -- Ralf