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: Next release from master Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 18:04:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453071895 11391 80.91.229.3 (17 Jan 2016 23:04:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 23:04:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 18 00:04:45 2016 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 1aKwNI-0006Ao-4y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:04:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56184 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aKwNH-00083K-FE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2016 18:04:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52101) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aKwN5-00083E-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2016 18:04:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aKwN0-0005ZI-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2016 18:04:31 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45278) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aKwN0-0005ZE-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2016 18:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aKwMz-0005yQ-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:04:25 +0100 Original-Received: from 23-91-143-239.cpe.pppoe.ca ([23.91.143.239]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:04:25 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 23-91-143-239.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:04:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 23-91-143-239.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WU8khZSsh+dGtIMdX39nvfnrbpY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:198217 Archived-At: BTW, I noticed that etc/NEWS on master is setup for "25.2" being the next release from master. Is that indeed the intention? My own conclusion based on how things worked during Emacs-24.N was that we're better off incrementing the major version every time there are new features. IOW the next release form master should be called 26.1 and 25.N should be kept for a bugfix-only releases from the emacs-25 branch. It's not tremendously important, but the way we've done it in the past ended up with all kinds of minor inconveniences when we suddenly decide that we need another bugfix release: e.g. having to update all "make-obsolete" calls, not to mention all the "will be fixed in (or added to) Emacs-NN.MM" already posted in debbugs, mailing-lists, stackoverflow, forums, and newsgroups which suddenly become lies. Stefan