From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest? Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:07:17 +1300 Message-ID: <17890.41797.960171.826417@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <17890.18514.686146.829769@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <85r6sdwfl1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172480928 24712 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2007 09:08:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 26 10:08:41 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 1HLbqZ-0004XY-GF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:08:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLbqY-0000lx-2d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:08:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLbpZ-0000l7-81 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:07:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLbpW-0000ks-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:07:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLbpU-0000kp-UX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:07:33 -0500 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HLbpQ-0002gw-F8; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:07:28 -0500 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (91.60.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.60.91]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3933D9B7B; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:07:21 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6EDAD4F6E0; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:07:19 +1300 (NZDT) In-Reply-To: <85r6sdwfl1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.94.2 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:66834 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Nick Roberts writes: > > >> > I think a new pretest March 1 would be good. > > > >> OK, March 1 it is. > > > > If the release really will be soon, how about forking at the same > > time and imposing a formal approval procedure on the release branch > > to prevent unnecessary, and possibly adverse, commits? > > Once we fork, no developer will look back. Well obviously I disagree as most developers want to see a release. That clearly won't happen if they stop working on it. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob