From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest and branch on Friday June 19 Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <200906130419.n5D4J8a3014569@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> References: <87k53h10vx.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244866882 25420 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2009 04:21:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 13 06:21:19 2009 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 1MFKk2-00010O-Dg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:21:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55966 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MFKk1-0002yg-J7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:21:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MFKjv-0002wG-OL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MFKjq-0002vG-6K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:21:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43929 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MFKjq-0002vD-0V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from barrelv2.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.114]:42096) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MFKjp-0003HO-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from godzilla.ics.uci.edu (godzilla.ics.uci.edu [128.195.10.101]) by barrelv2.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n5D4J8wc009436; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:19:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by godzilla.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id n5D4J8a3014569; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87k53h10vx.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:35:30 -0400") Original-Lines: 17 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: n5D4J8wc009436 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:111479 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > Following discussion with Stefan, I plan to make the next pretest, > 23.0.95, next Friday (June 19). At that time, I will also cut the > EMACS_23_BASE branch and open the trunk for development. If we need a > 23.0.96 pretest, it will be made from the branch. > > I'm not certain what version number to assign the trunk after branching. > I'm inclined to use 23.1.50, which assumes we'll use the trunk for > developing 23.2. Maybe this is optimistic; as many will recall, what > ended up as Emacs 22 was originally slated for 21.3. Opinions welcome. Shouldn't the numbering depend on the plan for the release after 23.1? Is lexical binding going to be added? (or some similar major feature)? Or just incremental work? (bug fixing/adding packages/etc)? (Well, actually the numbering is much less important than the plan... )