From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:46:41 -0500 Message-ID: <87acf0ff7i.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <55DA5764-DDB6-4858-9CE2-065857CDC863@gnu.org> <0D268F0D-B278-4307-86E3-E0FCE7A3B57B@raeburn.org> <87pso6anui.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87wtibiti7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877jaalwq9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zmn3wyv9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134798450 20578 80.91.229.2 (17 Dec 2005 05:47:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 17 06:47:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnUuE-0001lo-KI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:46:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnUux-0002NH-Hv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:47:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnUun-0002N1-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:47:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnUum-0002Mp-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:47:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnUum-0002Mm-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:47:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [18.95.6.226] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EnUxJ-00042p-Be; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:50:05 -0500 Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 360361E42E3; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:46:41 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:09:18 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:47927 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > Does that mean we have to abandon the practice of making pretests and > releases with all bugs fixed? Many people are taking that for granted. > I have been hoping, rather, to convince people to do more fixing > so that we could maintain our old standards. GCC, Firefox, Linux, and many other projects use a "critical regressions only" policy to get releases out more quickly. I've never heard anyone complaining about this practice, whereas many people are dissatisfied with the slow rate of Emacs releases.