From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Periodical releases Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:23:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325629405 30775 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2012 22:23:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 22:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Carsten Mattner Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 03 23:23:21 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiClL-0000sx-My for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:23:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42507 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiClK-0006xA-Si for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:23:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43355) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiClH-0006wt-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:23:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiClG-0006wM-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:23:15 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp-02.vtx.ch ([194.38.175.91]:55139) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiClG-0006wE-Cs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:23:14 -0500 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (dyn.144-85-205-173.dsl.vtx.ch [144.85.205.173]) by smtp-02.vtx.ch (VTX Services SA) with ESMTP id 6970660208; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:23:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4F7816614B; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 17:23:11 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Carsten Mattner's message of "Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:40:20 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Received-From: 194.38.175.91 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147241 Archived-At: > The solution for that is to let it evolve in a branch for longer than > one release cycle while merging finished changes to the release > branch and deliver those features sooner. I agree with Eli's explanation here (you can take the lexbind branch or the concurrency branch as another example), but there's a more positive way to look at it: Take the "trunk" as the branch on which we do those long-term changes, while the "emacs-23", or "emacs-24" branch is the stable branch from which we make "regular" releases. If you take this point of view as a starting point, you might come up with suggestions for changes which we may be able to implement. Stefan