From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <jmbarranquero@laley.wke.es>
Subject: Re: Major update just committed
Date: 01 Jun 2003 13:58:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uadd2ymxa.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305312033.h4VKXbcJ000827@rum.cs.yale.edu>
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:
> If we have another branch (other than unicode) for major changes,
> then we will not really focus on the trunk, methinks.
I am more worried that the opposite will happen. Casual users will
only ever look at the trunk, so if we branch for a 21.5 release, it
will not get much attention.
> So I think we should do like we did for 21.1 and like most projects
> do AFAIK, which is to say "freeze", spend some months debugging
> and then (and only then) make a new branch (which is the release branch).
> During the debugging phase people should just refrain from any "major work"
> which would distract them from debugging. When this "refraining" because
> too difficult, it's a sign that there isn't enough debugging to do any more,
> so it's a good time to branch.
We have the unicode branch already. If people cannot resist making
major changes, they can use that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-01 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-25 0:48 Major update just committed Kim F. Storm
2003-05-25 1:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-25 8:23 ` David Ponce
2003-05-26 3:47 ` Miles Bader
2003-05-28 0:18 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-05-27 13:28 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-05-28 0:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-05-27 22:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-28 3:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-28 23:58 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-29 3:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-29 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-29 17:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-29 17:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-30 0:55 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-05-30 0:48 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-30 7:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-31 19:52 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-31 20:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-01 12:58 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2003-06-01 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-04 8:54 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-01 15:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-06-01 20:11 ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-01 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-01 15:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-27 22:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-27 23:03 ` Jason Rumney
2003-05-27 23:22 ` Kenichi Handa
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