From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:56:04 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87hcuia6c4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169826998 15892 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2007 15:56:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:56:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eli Zaretskii" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 26 16:56:31 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 1HATR6-00028x-Ho for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:56:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HATR6-0006CY-0R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:56:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HATQu-0006CT-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:56:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HATQs-0006CG-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HATQs-0006CD-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:56:06 -0500 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HATQr-0001mY-Mp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:56:05 -0500 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so842249ugf for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:56:04 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aNqQuOVhY+hIjuWvrb1m2QiMExZzEx8BIeTUnqQqsm+CKPFu0+/XZAj0pQPfOY1k9w1tm8GHR9TEcPh1CIGW/E5/zt16qL9f9ZBBdfBELhp6FOK5PYGf9lp+xBpcEf+DhoWRGWFgEpTExKJP0SqqA9z9gx68bTnPeXlEjmfU+8g= Original-Received: by 10.66.216.6 with SMTP id o6mr3332693ugg.1169826964458; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:56:04 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.67.105.7 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:56:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:65492 Archived-At: On 1/26/07, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > 4 pretest tarballs is not too many, I think. No, of course not. I'm more worried by the month-long interval between pretests than the number of them. 30 days is enough for us to grow restless and leave us susceptible to featurettes posing as bug-fixes... (I have this mental image of us developers like the guys in Starship Troopers, surrounded by nasty, mean-looking bugs.) > during the pretest of Emacs 21, > I think many pretesters would send email short time after another > pretest was tarred, saying they have the new version up and running. > Perhaps we should ask them to provide this information now. Agreed. /L/e/k/t/u