From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 21.4 not tagged in CVS
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:48:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ufz0196li.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5mzu96fol.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:00:58 +0100")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Nobody expected it. It was a special situation that arose.
I don't think that is a good excuse to ignore CVS and make an ad-hoc
release that is not labelled, nor as far as I can see not even checked
in to CVS.
> The way Richard has described it, I don't think that we can at all
> rule out that a similar situation might happen again.
Which is why it is even more of a concern that this release was so
ad-hoc. There is a danger now that if it happens again, we will lose
the movemail patches.
> The solution would seem to have one branch where critical fixes are
> applied to regardless of whether a release is anticipated.
EMACS_21_1_RC was supposed to be such a branch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-12 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-12 13:19 21.4 not tagged in CVS Jason Rumney
2005-02-12 14:00 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-12 14:48 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2005-02-13 12:39 ` Richard Stallman
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