From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never). Date: 03 May 2004 11:29:40 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87hdvux5uz.fsf@orebokech.com> <87lll6v514.fsf@orebokech.com> <200404100109.KAA03816@etlken.m17n.org> <20040501232151.GA10382@fencepost> <16533.14869.127534.911979@nick.uklinux.net> <16533.22158.252815.200578@nick.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083580478 19444 80.91.224.253 (3 May 2004 10:34:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 10:34:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , rms@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , "Kim F. Storm" , Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 03 12:34:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKamL-0000TJ-00 for ; Mon, 03 May 2004 12:34:29 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKamL-0005KV-00 for ; Mon, 03 May 2004 12:34:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKam1-0004Dl-T0 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 06:34:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKajS-0002yC-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 06:31:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKaiw-0002hW-Ne for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 06:31:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1BKaht-0002Ht-6v; Mon, 03 May 2004 06:29:53 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (jasonrumney.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i43ATjU9006017; Mon, 3 May 2004 11:29:45 +0100 Original-Received: from NYAUMO (nyaumo.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAB19DDF67; Mon, 3 May 2004 11:29:44 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Nick Roberts In-Reply-To: <16533.22158.252815.200578@nick.uklinux.net> Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22601 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22601 Nick Roberts writes: > > > Otherwise new features will have no place to go and will quite > > > likely get bundled in with bug-fixes. > > > > New features can go into branches if really necessary. > > By new features, I just mean patches that might break functionality. They > might be too small to justify a separate branch. Put them into the unicode branch, since that is the target of the next feature release after this one. If we branch now, everyone will continue to work on HEAD, and we will never get a release out. We need to concentrate on the release now, and worry about branching for bugfixes after we have made a release.