From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Periodical releases Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:20:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <71588355363047528F16FE989690A488@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325766031 26437 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2012 12:20:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 05 13:20:25 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 1RimIx-0007CH-P5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:20:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46491 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RimIx-0006RJ-6V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:20:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46915) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RimIq-0006Qc-Kl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:20:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RimIk-0004V7-OJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:20:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:59613) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RimId-0004Qb-9V; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:20:03 -0500 Original-Received: by qabg40 with SMTP id g40so384595qab.0 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:20:02 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.224.185.203 with SMTP id cp11mr2441972qab.93.1325766002355; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:20:02 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from pluto.luannocracy.com (207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com. [207.172.223.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ev2sm67119193qab.15.2012.01.05.04.20.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:20:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by pluto.luannocracy.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 30A971DC7EBF; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 07:20:05 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:43:06 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.92 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.41 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:147334 Archived-At: on Thu Jan 05 2012, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Maybe the problem (if there is one) is that trunk is allowed to >> drift too far from a releasable state. > > You cannot control that drift without a test suite with decent > coverage. Excellent point. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com