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 08:41:02 -0500 Message-ID: References: <71588355363047528F16FE989690A488@us.oracle.com> <87r4ze3lf8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325770892 29915 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2012 13:41:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 05 14:41:26 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 1RinZM-0007ag-Kw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:41:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42712 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RinZM-0006lD-8z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:41:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43840) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RinZE-0006Na-O5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:41:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RinZ9-0002xG-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:41:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f48.google.com ([209.85.216.48]:61455) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RinYy-0002tn-NJ; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:41:00 -0500 Original-Received: by qadc16 with SMTP id c16so397115qad.0 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:40:59 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.224.220.14 with SMTP id hw14mr2909175qab.42.1325770858877; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:40:58 -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 hv20sm115610082qab.22.2012.01.05.05.40.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:40:58 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by pluto.luannocracy.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1B1531DD3109; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 08:41:02 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:25:55 -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: 209.85.216.48 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:147338 Archived-At: on Thu Jan 05 2012, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Dave Abrahams >> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:36:24 -0500 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> For what it's worth, Boost has no full-time people, and it releases four >> times yearly. > > How tightly are the various libraries in Boost connected? I.e., if > one of them is broken, how many others will become broken as result? Some are extremely loose and some have direct dependencies. But one thing we have had practically since the beginning is a fairly complete set of regression tests. Without that, I don't see how our pace of releases would be possible. > The "People" page of the Boost site shows 48 developers. How > intensely does each one of them work on Boost? I think Ohloh has the best information on this: http://www.ohloh.net/p/boost > For that matter, how many hours do you personally spend on Boost > weekly, if I may ask? I haven't had much time to do programming for Boost in the past few years. I'm not sure what the relevance is, though... > I would be surprised if Emacs had more than 10 to 15 active > maintainers at any given time. I don't know how many hours others > spend, but I can only devote about maybe 5 hours or less each week. Arguably, the more people contributing code, the harder the job of managing stable releases gets :-) -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com