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: Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:35:37 +1200 Message-ID: <18033.64249.816850.550250@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <6sps3z32ap.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87tztbcue9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lkemmrg4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> 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 1181875169 24814 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2007 02:39:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:39:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, Chong Yidong , rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 15 04:39:26 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 1Hz1if-0007sP-KS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:39:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz1ie-0001Zz-O7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:39:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz1ia-0001ZC-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:39:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz1iY-0001Ys-EA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz1iY-0001Yp-8q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:39:18 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hz1iV-0000Fn-UG; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:39:16 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (115.60.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.60.115]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD993D9E83; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:39:07 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 903108FBF6; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:35:38 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.1 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:72915 Archived-At: > > > No matter which route we take, it would be nice to have some sense > > > of direction for Emacs 23. Jay Belanger recently posted a message > > > asking about the policy for trunk development; I, too, would like to > > > know the answer to this. > > > > > > I said weeks ago people can install new features in the trunk now. > > > What uncertainty remains? > > > Did you mean, everything except the unicode code? > > Please postpone installing heavy changes of C code > (including cosmetic ones) until emacs-unicode-2 is merged > into the trunk unless you take care of the confliction > caused by the merging of them into emacs-unicode-2 branch > (that merging is done periodically). You also have to take > care of new codes added in emacs-unicode-2 if the change > must be applied to many files systematically. Surely emacs-unicode-2 should be the _next_ thing to be merged to the trunk, if only because it's existed as a branch for three years now (multi-tty is a relative newcomer on that basis). It seems unreasonable, to me, to expect Kenichi to merge changes indefinitely. I don't think there are enough resources to keep maintaining all these different branches for very long. In any case, it must be quite likely that there will just be bugfix-like releases from EMACS_22_BASE (just as there were from EMACS_21_1_RC). And let's make that merge now, before we slip (further) into oblivion. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob