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From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Periodical releases
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:34:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r4ze27ym.fsf@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 71588355363047528F16FE989690A488@us.oracle.com


on Mon Jan 02 2012, "Drew Adams" <drew.adams-AT-oracle.com> wrote:

>> Don't wait until "perfection" and release trunk more often
>> with bug releases if needed. 
>
> No, no, no, please.  Just the opposite.
> Bake Emacs _more_ fully before releasing it.
>
> Get it right.  Document it well.  Mention all user-visible changes in
> NEWS.  Fix outstanding bugs.
>
> Richard had exactly the right approach to releasing Emacs, IMO.  He
> was attacked by some because they felt the release cycle was too
> short.  I, for one, appreciated his thoroughness and insistence on
> high quality.

Is it not possible to have thorougness and high quality with more
frequent releases of smaller scope?  Maybe the problem (if there is one)
is that trunk is allowed to drift too far from a releasable state.  I'm
just saying.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com




  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-05  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-31 12:00 Periodical releases Carsten Mattner
2012-01-01 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-02 10:40   ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 11:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-02 12:57       ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 17:31         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-02 19:05         ` Drew Adams
2012-01-02 19:54           ` chad
2012-01-02 21:36             ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 20:29           ` Eric Schulte
2012-01-02 21:31             ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 20:41           ` Lluís
2012-01-02 21:23           ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 22:14             ` Drew Adams
2012-01-02 22:27               ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05  2:34           ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2012-01-05  2:58             ` Chong Yidong
2012-01-05  3:36               ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05  4:23                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-01-05 13:25                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-05 13:41                   ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05  9:31               ` Bastien
2012-01-05 10:11                 ` Leo
2012-01-05 11:31                   ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05 12:56                   ` Jambunathan K
2012-01-05 14:00                     ` Leo
2012-01-05 14:30                       ` Jambunathan K
2012-01-05 11:28                 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05 14:18                   ` Eric Schulte
2012-01-05 11:33                 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05  5:43             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-05 12:20               ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05 15:34             ` Drew Adams
2012-01-03 22:23     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-03 18:18 ` What's in a feature? (was: Periodical releases) Bastien
2012-01-04  3:24   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-04 10:03     ` What's in a feature? Bastien
2012-01-04 12:43       ` Juanma Barranquero

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