From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?b?Suly9G1l?= Marant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:32:18 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1096554738.415c18f2017de@imp4-q.free.fr> References: <1096291271.415813c757a26@imp6-q.free.fr> <20040927134714.GA20012@fencepost> <87hdphx91c.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87655wswkv.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <01c4a6f8$Blat.v2.2.2$f6ef61c0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096554770 11885 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 14:32:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:32:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rob Browning , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 16:32:37 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CD1z3-0005ag-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:32:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD25R-0007G8-Qe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:39:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD25F-0007Fo-E3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:39:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD25E-0007FF-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:39:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD25E-0007Ey-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:39:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.228.0.62] (helo=postfix4-1.free.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CD1yk-0000gX-MI; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:32:18 -0400 Original-Received: from imp4-q.free.fr (imp4-q.free.fr [212.27.42.4]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 133FE1F33E6; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:32:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by imp4-q.free.fr (Postfix, from userid 33) id 0DB92F721; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:32:18 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mure.msy.sagem.com (mure.msy.sagem.com [62.160.59.178]) by imp4-q.free.fr (IMP) with HTTP for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:32:18 +0200 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c4a6f8$Blat.v2.2.2$f6ef61c0@zahav.net.il> User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.5 X-Originating-IP: 62.160.59.178 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27704 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27704 Quoting Eli Zaretskii : > The way it worked until now was that if a decision was made to release > the version X.N from a branch, the version number on the trunk was > bumped up to X.N+1.50. This involves running "M-x set-version RET" > from admin.el. > > The situation you describe, where both a branch and a trunk version > are undergoing a pretest never happened before, since Emacs > development until now assumed that we don't have enough resources to > do that, and so there was at most one pretest at a time. I'm not sure > we can change that, given the available resources. So, are you telling that maintaing bugfix release like we proposed is not doable because of the current numbering scheme? If not, what do you propose? Thanks. -- J=E9r=F4me Marant