From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature freezes and Emacs 25 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:12:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <871tc315y3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83k2pvqg0l.fsf@gnu.org> <837fluqkd1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447870397 24436 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2015 18:13:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:13:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , nicolas@petton.fr, Emacs-devel To: Xue Fuqiao Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 19:13:17 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 1Zz7EK-0008Eg-J2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:13:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37439 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz7EK-0003nX-6B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:13:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz7EB-0003h2-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:13:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz7EB-0007K1-4O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:13:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34010) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz7E4-0007Iv-EW; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:13:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz7E2-00060U-Jb; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:12:58 -0500 X-Spook: JFK Bomb threat Agfa SBI SCUD missile Watch Security X-Ran: I5WGo+%''(|/Wp.SL\UTR[2NN#Sywq~@B`:8i,wGfFIw%fga-5eZ=sZrmCl[BNK}x#p#Ix X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Mon, 16 Nov 2015 08:54:04 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:194733 Archived-At: John Wiegley wrote: [I see you use Mail-Followup-To, which results in looking like I'm writing to someone else.] >>>>>> Glenn Morris writes: > >> AFAIK, nobody thought to even ask "how shall we track the bugs we need to >> fix for the next release". Till now! :) > > I had suggested using a release tag for 25.1 in debbugs. Is that not > possible? At some time soon we'll need to start assessing existing > bugs and applying that tag to them. I started tracking 25.1 bugs in February, since we've always known the next release is coming, and the regressions and security issues were already piling up. http://debbugs.gnu.org/19759 is my (partial) selection, I don't claim it's exhaustive. You can use a usertag if you prefer, but personally I think block/unblock is better. IMO now is the time to start tracking 25.2 (or whatever master is to be released as) issues as well. The "list of issues that need to be fixed before release" should always be being updated, else it's easy for items to get lost.