From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:04:33 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1096291271.415813c757a26@imp6-q.free.fr> <20040927134714.GA20012@fencepost> <87hdphx91c.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096481175 1528 80.91.229.6 (29 Sep 2004 18:06:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:06:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Kim F. Storm" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, J?r?me Marant , Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 29 20:05:47 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CCipm-0001tA-00 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:05:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CCiw8-0002Ev-9Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:12:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CCiw0-0002EM-RT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:12:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CCiw0-0002E6-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:12:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CCiw0-0002Dw-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:12:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CCiof-0003Zq-Jq; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:04:37 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C5082828D; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:04:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6DA74AC5E8; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:04:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 514E88CA23; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:04:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Rob Browning In-Reply-To: <87hdphx91c.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:46:39 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=0, requis 5) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27675 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27675 > So I'm wondering a little about the details. From some other > projects, I'm used to an aproach where an X.Y.0 (or just X.Y) release > is a "major" release, one which might break things, might have "more > adventurous" changes in it, and might not happen very frequently , and > an X.Y.Z (for Z > 0) release is just a bugfix release, which is made > "as often as needed". (Of course, X.0.0 releases would represent an > even bigger change than X.Y.0 releases.) Let's ignore version numbers for now. The issue of how to number them seems to always drift into never ending discussions and I have no interest in them. Use whichever scheme you like. Let's call 21.1 FOO, 21.2 BAR and 21.3 BAZ. FOO was a major release, BAR and BAZ were minor releases cur from a branch (that started off of FOO) and with only safe bugfixes applied. Stefan