From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs 21.2 Date: 22 Mar 2002 19:38:13 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016826523 22186 127.0.0.1 (22 Mar 2002 19:48:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "'Eli Zaretskii'" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16oV1n-0005lj-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:48:43 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16oV8a-00021A-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:55:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16oV1I-0007iC-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:48:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com ([194.73.73.93]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16oUyb-0007Zn-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:45:26 -0500 Original-Received: from host62-7-67-156.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([62.7.67.156] helo=nyaumo.btinternet.com) by rhenium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 16oUyA-0004sg-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:44:59 +0000 Original-Received: from nyaumo.btinternet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyaumo.btinternet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id TAA00460; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:38:14 GMT Original-To: "Marshall, Simon" In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2145 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2145 "Marshall, Simon" writes: > I think your release policy itself is wrong---assuming I know what it > is---I think the only reason to release a version that does not fix > serious but not necessarily fatal bugs is when a quick release is needed > because the previous release was broken. I think 21.2 should have fixed > known serious bugs as well as addressed "stability" (however you define > that) issues. 21.2 does fix some known serious bugs. But in each case, the chance of the change causing its own new problems has to be balanced against the problems it fixes. If we waited until EVERYTHING was fixed, we would never release a version of Emacs again. > Are you saying that, from the beginning, only minor fixes would be > going in 21.2? What was the point of that? Minor fixes generally don't cause problems, they only fix them. Major fixes come with their own set of problems. Since 21.1 was a major release with many new features, from the beginning it was thought that a bugfix release would be needed. I think more bugs were expected in 21.1 than were actually found, so perhaps that is why this release may seem unnecessary to some people. -- Jason Rumney _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel