From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest? Date: 24 Feb 2007 10:40:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k5y83e3a.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172331674 24290 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2007 15:41:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 24 16:41:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HKz1G-0005nM-9L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:41:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKz1F-0000eW-Ss for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:41:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HKz13-0000e9-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:40:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKz12-0000e1-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:40:52 -0500 Original-Received: from biscayne-one-station.mit.edu ([18.7.7.80]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HKz12-0004Cs-GW; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:40:52 -0500 Original-Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l1OFeoJT003720; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:40:50 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from no-knife.mit.edu (NO-KNIFE.MIT.EDU [18.7.18.73]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as cyd@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l1OFenxV026005 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:40:50 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from cyd@localhost) by no-knife.mit.edu (8.12.9.20060308) id l1OFenUI011818; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:40:49 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9.1 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66746 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Please in the future wait for a while before you act. I don't always > have time to react immediately, and I imagine others have such > problems as well. My free time is very limited, so I usually can work > on Emacs only on weekends. Thus, any changes that I need to make that > take more than a few moments are delayed by several days. > > I suggest in the future to announce that you will produce the next > pretest on such-and-such date (several days in the future), so that > people who have important patches could install them in time for the > pretest. Yes, you're right. Maybe we should avoid announcing this pretest, and roll the next pretest in short order, so that it can include the GPG doc changes, the patches you are testing, and (hopefully) Alan's C++ fix. How about a week, say the weekend of March 1?