From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release schedule Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:02:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r6qdlecf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177185905 28364 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2007 20:05:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 22:04:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HfLpI-0007cD-JC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:04:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HfLuV-0006fX-7k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HfLuR-0006fQ-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:10:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HfLuR-0006fD-3W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:10:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HfLuQ-0006fA-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:10:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HfLpD-0000ze-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HfLmf-0004Iv-Nd; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:02:13 -0400 X-Spook: ANZUS Vickie Weaver Ft. Meade Merlin industrial X-Ran: k1CiF~E)G;#C<>~8"E8#=sE#q?8hrpo^S65I;4 (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:25:20 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:69746 Archived-At: Chong Yidong wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: [...] >> In that case, I think we should make another pretest. We cannot just >> release the code with untested patches that got installed since the >> 22.0.98 pretest. >> >> Does anyone disagree? Cleverly worded... :) > On Monday, I will cut the branch and roll a candidate Emacs 22.1 > tarball. If no immediate problems are found with that tarball, I > think we can make that the official release. This doesn't seem like a good idea to me. I suggest branching on Monday, making an immediate final pretest from the branch, waiting a few days (and not making _any_ changes unless Emacs is shown to explode), then making a release. I was hoping for a St George's day release, alas... :(