From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution] Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:32:48 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <87aee030-ec9e-2178-c63c-20e0bd21fa4e@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83tw0h0yem.fsf@gnu.org> <83lglr24ck.fsf@gnu.org> <83wp5azh33.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504820028 25133 195.159.176.226 (7 Sep 2017 21:33:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 21:33:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 07 23:33:34 2017 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 1dq4QA-0004q5-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 23:33:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42341 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dq4QF-0001Vp-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48213) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dq4Q5-0001UF-JQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:33:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dq4Q1-0007yj-0P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:33:05 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:53512) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dq4Pv-0007qS-T6; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:32:56 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47919160092; Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:32:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id oiKVJJKFYPLo; Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:32:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39651600B0; Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:32:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id C0vez2wgB6OO; Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:32:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.153.184.153]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 95888160056; Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:32:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83wp5azh33.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:217996 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > If this bug is indeed deemed > urgent by the community, it will be fixed very soon, and in that case > blocking the next release, which will not happen tomorrow or the next > week, is meaningless. OTOH, if the bug will remain unfixed till we > are ready to release Emacs 26.1, in, like, 6 months, then it means > fixing it is not deemed important, and blocking the release for it > makes no sense. A similar argument could be applied to any blocking bug, so why bother to= mark=20 any bug as blocking? I find value in having even easily-fixed bugs marked as blocking, if the = bugs=20 are important (as this one surely is).