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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Periodical releases
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:43:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Rig6U-00015S-Ks@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r4ze27ym.fsf@boostpro.com> (message from Dave Abrahams on Wed,  04 Jan 2012 21:34:25 -0500)

> From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:34:25 -0500
> 
> Is it not possible to have thorougness and high quality with more
> frequent releases of smaller scope?

It is, with more resources than we currently have.

> Maybe the problem (if there is one) is that trunk is allowed to
> drift too far from a releasable state.

You cannot control that drift without a test suite with decent
coverage.  We don't have that yet.  We don't even have a concerted
effort to get there, AFAIK.  Volunteers are welcome, as always.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-05  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-31 12:00 Periodical releases Carsten Mattner
2012-01-01 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-02 10:40   ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 11:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-02 12:57       ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 17:31         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-02 19:05         ` Drew Adams
2012-01-02 19:54           ` chad
2012-01-02 21:36             ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 20:29           ` Eric Schulte
2012-01-02 21:31             ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 20:41           ` Lluís
2012-01-02 21:23           ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 22:14             ` Drew Adams
2012-01-02 22:27               ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05  2:34           ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05  2:58             ` Chong Yidong
2012-01-05  3:36               ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05  4:23                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-01-05 13:25                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-05 13:41                   ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05  9:31               ` Bastien
2012-01-05 10:11                 ` Leo
2012-01-05 11:31                   ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05 12:56                   ` Jambunathan K
2012-01-05 14:00                     ` Leo
2012-01-05 14:30                       ` Jambunathan K
2012-01-05 11:28                 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05 14:18                   ` Eric Schulte
2012-01-05 11:33                 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05  5:43             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-01-05 12:20               ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05 15:34             ` Drew Adams
2012-01-03 22:23     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-03 18:18 ` What's in a feature? (was: Periodical releases) Bastien
2012-01-04  3:24   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-04 10:03     ` What's in a feature? Bastien
2012-01-04 12:43       ` Juanma Barranquero

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