From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: Branch freezing for release
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 06:18:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-9ewk607f7pOcjaNixTiy=Pf1-jCbNqGLboyoMoE928jg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bm1b4sch.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 03:04, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:03:28 -0400
> > Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
> > Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> >
> > > > Though perhaps there is some fuzziness in CONTRIBUTE over the exact
> > > > meaning of "is in the very last stages of its pretest".
> > >
> > > If someone can suggest a better way of saying that, please do. The
> > > text does say soon afterwards "if you are unsure, ask".
> >
> > Maybe it helps to spell out a number?
>
> I'd hesitate to fix the number at 90 (or any other specific number),
> because sometimes .90 is not close enough. We could say .100, but
> AFAIR that happened only once or twice in the history, so it would not
> be helpful. The problem here is that the number is not determined by
> how close we think we are to the release, its correlation with that is
> very weak.
Yes, the only way to know is to follow emacs-devel, so for someone who
doesn't follow the list, asking at anything above .90 is the only safe
recommendation, right?
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2019-04-10 8:57 ` Branch freezing for release (WAS: bug#34776) Noam Postavsky
2019-04-10 9:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-10 16:16 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-10 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-10 16:59 ` Branch freezing for release Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-10 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-10 17:39 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-10 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-11 14:02 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-22 13:03 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-22 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-22 15:18 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-10 17:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-10 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-10 18:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-10 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-10 20:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-04-11 0:12 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-11 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-12 1:03 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-12 7:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-12 10:18 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-04-12 12:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-12 12:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-12 14:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-04-10 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-10 13:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-04-10 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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