From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Move to a cadence release model? Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:03:40 -0800 Message-ID: References: <8337wdn6uu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447175036 32072 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2015 17:03:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:03:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 18:03:56 2015 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 1ZwCKp-0006VO-2Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:03:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34285 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwCKo-0007pq-J0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:03:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34950) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwCKk-0007mb-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:03:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwCKj-0005oI-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:03:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22a]:34319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwCKf-0005mg-MV; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:03:45 -0500 Original-Received: by padhx2 with SMTP id hx2so2262803pad.1; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:03:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date:message-id:references :user-agent:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type; bh=9MuulC+YDWu3m5sRD4rbTvIZlA2GiOUYdbdr1eTeOZc=; b=aew/s0kqvdCoKB1ROZkF2n2gl8ucjX9WMxAoeXXmZ9O/SRvNBcnZSksFGmtrM20gOR yFk6BmVPDSuwtyKdxnieFOvMYCR1Nt44Lrh9rz435B+h/o2TpqyAxnBA54PyusvjurBh OSNFCNY6Bes4XwK8OmP5vLFWeruzByIqI09xr8JDScaqDK3FrTIdD1m2380efyKej0rD E6wANQxJ2yMRN9oIDqUwJW4zPkU22MkFv6ot1fQPA7+dhNlAVJGUWuEFJWOhajNEZ+gH vI+QKMlCEJ9M+xxK6ySxa6BZRTLkt1GHm7RWHo4oBb6zMps1eRNdVYXR+tV31fnmZFqx H6Fg== X-Received: by 10.68.134.1 with SMTP id pg1mr7145780pbb.133.1447175024924; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:03:44 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Vulcan.attlocal.net (76-234-68-79.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net. [76.234.68.79]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id pa4sm5103657pbc.0.2015.11.10.09.03.43 (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:03:43 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Vulcan.attlocal.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id 4E02E1050FDA1; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:03:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8337wdn6uu.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:42:49 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , john@yates-sheets.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22a 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:193887 Archived-At: >>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes: > We could avoid the feature freeze altogether, if we wanted, and instead cut > the release branch and work on the release there without freezing master. That would be my preference. Let's cut release-25.1 this upcoming Friday night at the freeze date. It does mean a commitment by developers to use and test with this branch until the release is out. But it allows development on 'master' to continue without any artificial pause, or forcing everything that could have gone onto master into feature branches. John