From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature freeze (was Re: font-lock-comment-delimiter-face) Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:46:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8ebr83q5rw.fsf_-_@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: ttn@glug.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114379023 12617 80.91.229.2 (24 Apr 2005 21:43:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:43:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 24 23:43:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPosu-00037Q-HT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:43:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPoyJ-0003Eh-0r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:48:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DPoy7-0003Eb-M2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:48:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DPoy5-0003E4-Vy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:48:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPoy5-0002pj-Rk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.245.121.136] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DPozJ-0006p2-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:50:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DPow4-0003QA-DU; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:46:40 -0400 Original-To: gmorris+emacs@ast.cam.ac.uk In-reply-to: <8ebr83q5rw.fsf_-_@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> (message from Glenn Morris on Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:27:47 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36345 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36345 From: Glenn Morris Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:27:47 +0100 2) should there be a new CVS branch for the release? that depends on the precise release methodology, which hasn't been captured under admin/ or admin/notes/, as far as i can tell. perhaps that action (and even the term "capture") goes against the hacker way, even though it is accepted in other organizational structures... at this time there is a frustration from people who have a backlog of changes they would like to commit, but have refrained from doing so, especially when they see the continuing drizzle of commits done by others. perhaps the well-restrained can help the drizzlers to taper off by showing how they keep their backlog maintained (but ready for commit once the next release is made), while working on the items in the file FOR-RELEASE. the idea is not to stem the hacking, but to buffer it in such a way that rms' release-threshold criteria can be met, even though we don't know the criteria fully. thi