From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest and branch on Friday June 19 Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:50:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k53h10vx.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87my8b25pq.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244944262 30315 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2009 01:51:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:51:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 14 03:50:58 2009 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 1MFes4-0006l0-2A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:50:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42696 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MFes3-0005I2-A9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:50:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MFery-0005Fv-QG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:50:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MFeru-000581-Al for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:50:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54284 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MFeru-00057c-1U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:52352) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MFert-0007KW-NE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:50:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MFert-00085a-0Y; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:50:45 -0400 X-Spook: Firefly global Mossad JFK AFSPC Sears Tower enemy of the X-Ran: =?us-ascii?Q?VZ=2F{J=3EQVFU{{d=3A5=28ukVwuX=29dL=3EvVCmoCWkw=2Fz7vS?= =?us-ascii?Q?7l=2Ci5'NjX4=3D=3F=2C=3DRF`vV=3B=3Bokn4sGhiU?= X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:111498 Archived-At: Chong Yidong wrote: > Do you have a specific feature in mind, that you'd be uncomfortable > developing on a 23.x trunk? I'm not thinking of anything in particular, big or small. I just quite liked the general principle that 22.2 could never (in theory) be any worse than 22.1. If one allows for non-bugfix, non-self-contained new features in 23.2, then this guarantee goes away. Or, if one doesn't allow for such changes, then developing on a 23.x trunk means delaying such changes till after the 23.x series. Perhaps this is just being overly cautious though.