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.
next prev 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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