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: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 00:11:20 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <9a6bda99-98c6-9bf2-51af-dfd36e763a45@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83tw0h0yem.fsf@gnu.org> <83lglr24ck.fsf@gnu.org> <83wp5azh33.fsf@gnu.org> <87aee030-ec9e-2178-c63c-20e0bd21fa4e@cs.ucla.edu> <838thpznkv.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: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504855109 20989 195.159.176.226 (8 Sep 2017 07:18:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 07:18:29 +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 Fri Sep 08 09:18:11 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 1dqDXh-00032p-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 09:17:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43645 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqDXm-0004Yq-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 03:17:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqDXa-0004Yb-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 03:17:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqDXV-0007zS-EO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 03:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:51326) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqDXP-0007s6-KI; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 03:17:15 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891541608AA; Fri, 8 Sep 2017 00:11:26 -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 IWt0Ge6Ofkxw; Fri, 8 Sep 2017 00:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F07316087F; Fri, 8 Sep 2017 00:11:21 -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 uVREv6Vr0few; Fri, 8 Sep 2017 00:11:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.153.184.153]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DEC22160056; Fri, 8 Sep 2017 00:11:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <838thpznkv.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:218005 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > marking bugs as blocking and their > urgency are two different and almost independent issues. They are different but not that independent. Urgent bugs are considerably more likely to be blocking (i.e., they should be fixed before the next release) than non-urgent bugs are. >> so why bother to mark any bug as blocking? > Because it helps in management of a release. It's a managerial tool. Yes, of course. It's just that this particular bug is severe enough that it should be fixed before the next release. I'm even becoming to be inclined to think that it should be backported to the *previous* release, and I *hate* doing that sort of thing.