From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Sainty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unreleased improvements lingering on master Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 23:29:55 +1300 Message-ID: <9556d720-d8ef-ea59-ef3c-0e4dce30835f@orcon.net.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="187387"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Bjartur Thorlacius Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 19 12:30:55 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iLm0X-000mG5-N6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 12:30:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52730 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iLm0W-0001dC-Av for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 06:30:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iLlzp-0001d5-DD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 06:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iLlzn-000613-Uz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 06:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-2.orcon.net.nz ([60.234.4.43]:42319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iLlzn-0005vw-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 06:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [116.251.203.173] (port=16149 helo=[192.168.20.103]) by smtp-2.orcon.net.nz with esmtpa (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iLlzg-00054V-4L; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 23:29:56 +1300 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB X-GeoIP: NZ X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_bar: -- X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 60.234.4.43 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:241221 Archived-At: Hi Bjartur, On 19/10/19 5:20 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > Both master and emacs-26 are actively developed, yet as far as I can > see only emacs-26 is actively being released. Is it time to release > master under another major version number, say 27? You are simply observing the normal development cycle for GNU Emacs. The master branch contains what will eventually become the next major release, which will indeed be version 27 (with 27.1 being the initial stable release version). > Or are users which want to enjoy the fruits of the development on > master from the past years expected to build GNU Emacs themselves? Exactly so. Or at least, OS distributions are generally not in the habit of packaging unstable versions for public consumption (you may or may not be able to find such packages from third-parties for your own OS, but official OS packages are unlikely). In general users can (and do) build Emacs themselves from the master branch in order to participate in the development and testing process or, in some cases, merely to gain access to the new improvements -- at the obvious greater risk of encountering bugs. In due course there will be one or more 'pretest' releases of Emacs 27 intended for wider consumption by end-users, and a full release tends to follow within the following few weeks or months, depending on the outcome of the testing. There is no fixed schedule for this (that I am aware of, at any rate), and I don't know the maintainers' current intentions, but I would guess that we'll see the 27.1 release in 2020. -Phil