From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.mail.mh-e.devel Subject: Re: Continued development during release process Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:10:18 -0400 Message-ID: <87wtdgwfl4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <2167.1145655433@olgas.newt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145801440 14004 80.91.229.2 (23 Apr 2006 14:10:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:10:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bill Wohler , mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 23 16:10:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXfIJ-0006Ep-5P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:10:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXfII-0004uF-J9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FXfI6-0004tf-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:10:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FXfI4-0004sw-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:10:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXfI4-0004st-HM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:10:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.188] (helo=tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FXfK4-0004LE-UR; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:12:25 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.53.192.213]) by tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060423141018.DZTB28586.tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:10:18 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 79F39D7BAE; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:10:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:32:30 -0400") 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:53257 gmane.mail.mh-e.devel:12156 Archived-At: > I want to keep people's attention focused on the release until the > release actually comes out. So I will not relegate the coming release > 22 to a branch when pretesting starts. > If we reach a late stage of pretesting where there are few bugs, and > mostly waiting for a few specific people to fix them, maybe I will > move 22 to a branch then. I just take this opportunity to make sure that you won't forget to make a branch for Emacs-22 at some point. It can be at the moment when we cut the release, but no later. The branch will be used for 22.2, 22.3, ... You probably knew that, but even very bright people have been known to forget it, Stefan