From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Major update just committed Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 04:54:43 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030529190715.40E0.LEKTU@terra.es> <20030530092229.81D3.JMBARRANQUERO@laley.wke.es> <200305312033.h4VKXbcJ000827@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054717933 9522 80.91.224.249 (4 Jun 2003 09:12:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 09:12:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jmbarranquero@laley.wke.es Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 04 11:12:09 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NUJV-0002Sr-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 11:12:09 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19NUb1-0000mZ-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 11:30:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NUJQ-00017r-9h for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 05:12:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NUJ4-00016t-IP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 05:11:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NUJ3-00016P-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 05:11:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NU2d-0003Vf-8n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 04:54:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19NU2d-0005to-1b; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 04:54:43 -0400 Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-reply-to: <200305312033.h4VKXbcJ000827@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu) Original-cc: lektu@terra.es Original-cc: eliz@elta.co.il Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14673 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14673 During the debugging phase people should just refrain from any "major work" which would distract them from debugging. When this "refraining" because too difficult, it's a sign that there isn't enough debugging to do any more, so it's a good time to branch. That seems like a good standard. However, we could still install new versions of self-contained packages such as Gnus.