From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 21.4 Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 00:46:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: <16903.63023.468339.184711@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107820036 1862 80.91.229.2 (7 Feb 2005 23:47:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 23:47:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 08 00:47:16 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyIb0-00089n-Iz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 00:47:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyIpE-00086L-4f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyIoq-00084C-DF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:01:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyIom-00082y-6K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:01:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyIom-00082i-38 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:01:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CyIal-0000cf-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:46:55 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CyIXL-0001Zz-DR; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:43:23 -0500 Original-To: Nick Roberts In-Reply-To: <16903.63023.468339.184711@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:13:51 +1300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33062 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33062 Nick Roberts writes: > > What needs to be done now? > > > ... > > > b) In the CVS version, the version number should likely get > > bumped to 22.0.50 instead of the current 21.3.50. There is no > > sense in making it 21.4.50, anyhow, and it would be quite > > misleading to have it stay at 21.3.50, lower than the current > > released version. > > > > c) all references to 21.4 need to be replaced by referring to > > 22.1 in our CVS. > > ... > > Constructing such a plan only makes sense if you are prepared to > accept that it might be ignored completely. That's what point "e)" was for. Anyway, this _is_ all about minimizing the negative impact of a future potentially uncoordinated release. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum