From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: chad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: More metaproblem Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 15:03:31 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20141203142859.24393.98673@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20141203192721.GE12748@thyrsus.com> <547F6774.50700@cs.ucla.edu> <838uio5vjw.fsf@gnu.org> <20141203211447.GB15111@thyrsus.com> <871toge5zw.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <83388v6hsq.fsf@gnu.org> <85zjb3q06b.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.1 \(1993\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417820641 5913 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 23:04:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 23:04:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Leake , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 00:03:54 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx1ui-0000wq-1h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:03:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52812 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx1uh-0001GS-LT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:03:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44693) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx1uZ-0001CV-Kx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:03:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx1uT-0002KJ-PK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:03:43 -0500 Original-Received: from p3plsmtpa09-07.prod.phx3.secureserver.net ([173.201.193.236]:42839) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx1uT-0002Jv-KK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:03:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [10.0.1.37] ([75.165.99.219]) by p3plsmtpa09-07.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with id Pz3Y1p0014k0Ty301z3Yy1; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:03:33 -0700 X-Sender: chad@lonesharkgames.com In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1993) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 173.201.193.236 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179063 Archived-At: > On 04 Dec 2014, at 07:35, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>>> For example, as far as I can see -- and I've looked, though maybe in the >>>> wrong places -- there's never been a permanent sign anywhere, like on a >>>> web page, telling developers when they should commit to release branches >>>> versus when they should commit to master (trunk). > > I'd be happy to put such info somewhere, but I'm not sure where that > should go. I see two problems to solve: This might be too much of a shotgun to the problem, but what if we added a file FEATURE-FREEZE to the master when the feature freeze was on, along with the email to emacs-dev? It could contain the explicit details like "Hey, please hold on to the feature for now, and try to help us test/finish the release candidate instead. Thanks!" ~Chad