From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 21.2.90 pretest, 21.3, 21.4... Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:18:36 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036593370 25810 80.91.224.249 (6 Nov 2002 14:36:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:36:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 189RHB-0006dh-00 for ; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 15:35:25 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 189RPi-0003Ye-00 for ; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 15:44:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 189RGe-0007Fk-00; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:34:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 189R0x-00088k-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:18:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 189R0u-000887-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:18:38 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 189R0t-00087X-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:18:36 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA07168; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:18:36 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Karl Eichwalder In-Reply-To: Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9183 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9183 On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Karl Eichwalder wrote: > My idea is to prepare those patches mainly for internal release > management purposes (but it wouldn't hurd to make them available on > alpha, too). Prepare pre-releases as usual, do testing. Now, when a > serious problem with the already released version pops up, fix just > this problem and release a fixed version immediately. You assume that in the meantime no changes were done in the CVS, which is normally not the case. Also, an entirely new tarball for each bug sounds excessive (each one is 20MB compressed, remember?). > PITA, that the gnu announce group is empty > since ages -- as long as you (not you personally) don't fix the > announce channels you don't have a right to complain about the lack of > manpower. I didn't complain. Someone needs to step forward to fix gnu.announce as well.