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: Feature freeze on October 1 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:15:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fw6izq6z.fsf@gnu.org> <4311.1348165342@theowa.merten-home.homelinux.org> <87obl0qdj4.fsf@gnu.org> <83obkzygjo.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348233335 10156 80.91.229.3 (21 Sep 2012 13:15:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:15:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , smerten@oekonux.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 21 15:15:39 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TF34z-0003Dd-PN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:15:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40132 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TF34u-0002KV-P9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37345) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TF34o-0002IU-3k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:15:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TF34g-0005HF-Ci for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:12656) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TF34V-00051e-7F; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:15:07 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09MCocG/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHAW6CZBEA6MzgViDBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="199628817" Original-Received: from 76-10-135-6.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.135.6]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 21 Sep 2012 09:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 039FE591B8; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:15:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83obkzygjo.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:35:23 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:153435 Archived-At: >> We are planning to experiment with a short freeze this time round. The >> current idea is to freeze for about a month, make the release branch, >> then open the trunk for commits. > Not sure what would be the difference between one-month freeze and > zero-month freeze. There's also the fear that a zero month freeze would lead to too many people continuing the use the trunk without paying any attention to the release branch. Stefan