From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Emacs 23 development policy (was: Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:31:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: <6sps3z32ap.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87tztbcue9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181802809 4064 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2007 06:33:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:33:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 14 08:33:28 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 1Hyitb-0006Vs-66 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:33:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hyita-0007OJ-O6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:33:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyitW-0007OE-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:33:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyitU-0007O2-97 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:33:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyitU-0007Nz-1x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:33:20 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HyitT-0007bS-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HyitO-0003la-3V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:33:14 +0200 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:33:14 +0200 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:33:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: /U7=m^"/-Dn61mAl{g9e3>\G5Tp,oEX|V)g2I1hBk\ML; )7A?6cmB-y7y?'NA^J<=oz7syB =(McAwIHgLX!.B?R3X}98d@?>CrT094KLWh]WU4gDpnL/")MS(XoQTv`Oq225uL>+; CpPXo$N5e>N> $tPd-gbB^F{gQS#1ase]XO~D4p4M"3+F-7~u]dy3I?Pb8RO*H-EFeWDUf?Rf, d]pv\Jvh2Cht!A=im yKAS2Z%Ao^;}W/qzMvMm Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5SN35aaph5iGL8JYG/YO6KThvkQ= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:72829 Archived-At: [ Please consider to changes the subject if the topic changes... ] On Thu, Jun 14 2007, Chong Yidong wrote: > I, personally, would prefer a shorter release cycle for Emacs 23. One > approach would be to limit the Emacs 23 changes to unicode, multi-tty, > and xft, with a *very* limited set of other changes. In this > scenario, a two year cycle is feasible. I'd suppose that several developers have uncomitted changes lying around since the kind-of feature freeze in May 2004. If we take "very limited" literally, such changes might have to wait some more years. > No matter which route we take, it would be nice to have some sense of > direction for Emacs 23. Jay Belanger recently posted a message asking > about the policy for trunk development; I, too, would like to know the > answer to this. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/