From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Getting start on Emacs 25.2 Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:28:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83mvj5i8ab.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474216140 10719 195.159.176.226 (18 Sep 2016 16:29:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 16:29:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 18 18:28:56 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1blexc-0002PY-NY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:28:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blexb-0002VK-0t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:28:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38892) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blexT-0002V4-FU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:28:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blexP-0000bu-8q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:28:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38587 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blexP-0000aI-1x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:28:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1blexH-0008HT-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:28:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:FgvRsy4VdsBJr7WViG982bYZYMk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:207564 Archived-At: >> Now that 25.1 is out the door, it's time to begin work on 25.2. I'd >> like to ask those who are aware of patches that might have been >> applied to 25.1, but weren't due to time pressure, to review those >> patches and consider cherry-picking them to the emacs-25 branch, >> which is now open to such changes. Maybe a good start is to look at those commits on master whose commit message refers to a bug#. > My gut feeling is that everything on master is relevant to Emacs 25.2, > and therefore we should probably start a new branch, called Emacs-25.2 > or some such, forking it off master. Master includes a fairly large number of changes already, so it's clearly not fit for a quick bug-fix-only release. IOW what you're suggesting is to forgo bug-fix releases and go straight to the next "feature" release (maybe with fairly few features). I'm fine with it, but I'd call it Emacs-26, then ;-) > Alternatively, we could decide that 25.2 will be a bugfix only > release, in which case none of the changes on master should be in it, > only bugs that will be reported hence about the released version. I'd vote for that option (but accepting some cherrypicks from master from those people who care enough to take the time to do that). [ Of course, nobody should be surprised at this point: back in the time of 24.5 I made it clear that I think the ".MM" part should be used exclusively for bugfix-only releases, so Emacs-24.3 should have been called Emacs-25.1. ] Stefan