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: Release schedule Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:14:25 -0400 Message-ID: <87ejmdlc2m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87r6qdlecf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177186492 30045 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2007 20:14:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:14:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 22:14:45 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 1HfLym-0003GD-0J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:14:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HfM3y-0005hv-L2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HfM3v-0005hq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:20:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HfM3u-0005hh-If for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:20:02 -0400 Original-Received: from south-station-annex.mit.edu ([18.72.1.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HfLyh-0002qW-74; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:14:39 -0400 Original-Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l3LKEbDj020472; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:14:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l3LKEQgp004392; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:14:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from localhost (SYDNEYPACIFIC-SIX-TWENTY.MIT.EDU [18.95.7.109]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l3LKEPJ9001548; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:14:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cyd by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HfLyT-00033k-00; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:14:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Sat\, 21 Apr 2007 16\:02\:13 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9.1 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:69750 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: >> On Monday, I will cut the branch and roll a candidate Emacs 22.1 >> tarball. If no immediate problems are found with that tarball, I >> think we can make that the official release. > > This doesn't seem like a good idea to me. I suggest branching on > Monday, making an immediate final pretest from the branch, waiting a > few days (and not making _any_ changes unless Emacs is shown to > explode), then making a release. In that case, why don't we simply branch and make a final pretest now?