From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:26:16 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1096291271.415813c757a26@imp6-q.free.fr> <20040927134714.GA20012@fencepost> <87hdphx91c.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87655wswkv.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <1096489325.415b196d95987@imp3-q.free.fr> <200409300053.i8U0rWh20758@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <01c4a6f7$Blat.v2.2.2$8c5c2b00@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096576018 15782 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 20:26:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:26:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jerome.marant@free.fr, eliz@gnu.org, rlb@defaultvalue.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 22:26:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CD7Vk-0005en-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:26:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD7c9-0004wj-BI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:33:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD7c1-0004vn-LC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD7c0-0004us-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:33:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD7bz-0004uW-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.237] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CD7VJ-0008Ad-Ar; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id E18ED262863; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:26:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:37:31 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27747 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27747 Richard Stallman writes: > We once discussed the idea to use negative Z values for CVS and pretests, > e.g. instead of 21.3.50.NN we would have 21.4.-99.NN for CVS version > and pretests vould be 21.4.-98, 21.4.-97 etc. > > One drawback of this idea is that the pretest version numbers are moving > towards a fixed limit of zero, which puts a bound on them. So call the CVS version 21.4.-999 and let the pretests use -998 -997 etc. That should be enough I think (hope :-) > - use MAJOR.MINOR where MINOR is only incremented for bugfix releases and > MAJOR is incremented for non-bugfix releases. I.e. the next release would > then be 22.1 and unicode would be 23.1. > > That would be a good scheme, I think. I really wish we could agree on renumbering the next release from trunk to 22.1. It is the first major release in YEARS, so it warrants a new major release number. And it could mark the start of a new bug-fix numbering scheme: CVS version: 22.1.-999 Pretests: 22.1.-998 ... 22.1.-1 Initial release: 22.1 (or 22.1.0) Bug fixes: 22.1.1, 22.1.2, ... Minor releases: 22.2, 22.3, ... I hereby offer to make all the necessary changes! -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk