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: Release-critical bugs Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:28:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mw9yb2f8.fsf@engster.org> <83bnqd3b5n.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411061350 18236 80.91.229.3 (18 Sep 2014 17:29:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:29:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 18 19:29:04 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XUfVv-0001YW-UG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:29:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52410 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUfVv-0006Lq-I0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:29:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48338) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUfVX-00069H-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:28:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUfVW-0008Rg-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:28:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53164) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUfVW-0008Qf-4X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUfVN-0001Ix-M8; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:28:29 -0400 X-Spook: sniper Soviet mindwar quarter bootleg Geraldton bce ASIO X-Ran: tpRl5?,,vbZjGWu8<{m2Aa1}BVUIxh{[+'B{h1K#pkyC8c-Kw2j}kN?&*V'w&R{JP/in=l X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83bnqd3b5n.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 18 Sep 2014 05:39:00 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174513 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> This release is really dragging... > > I don't think I agree with that. That makes me feel a bit better! :) But I still think it's going too slowly. Some packages (and even entire distributions) manage releases on a six-month cycle (not that that is necessarily something to emulate). But 9+ months of pretesting feels like too much.