From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never). Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 09:46:34 +0100 Organization: Integra SP Ltd Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4075116A.50505@gnu.org> References: <87eks0654s.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <87n06bp4ng.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <8765cwkejr.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200404071157.UAA25094@etlken.m17n.org> <200404071312.WAA25268@etlken.m17n.org> <87zn9nqras.fsf@emacswiki.org> <200404080203.LAA26847@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1081414313 4108 80.91.224.253 (8 Apr 2004 08:51:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 08 10:51:42 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BBVGA-0001gQ-00 for ; Thu, 08 Apr 2004 10:51:42 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BBVG9-000116-00 for ; Thu, 08 Apr 2004 10:51:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BBVFE-00051E-2O for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2004 04:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BBVEH-0004yN-4H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2004 04:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BBVDj-0004m7-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2004 04:49:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.61.173.204] (helo=integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BBVBP-0003lz-OA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2004 04:46:47 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 32272 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2004 08:32:34 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ntserver.integrasp.com) (217.207.198.106) by 66.216.96.43 with SMTP; 8 Apr 2004 08:32:34 -0000 Original-Received: from gnu.org (altiojr.altio.com [192.168.111.196]) by ntserver.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 2CQ68Z5T; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:46:19 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, ja Original-To: Kenichi Handa In-Reply-To: <200404080203.LAA26847@etlken.m17n.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21354 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21354 Kenichi Handa wrote: > I have thought that we are going to take the following > schedule. > > (1) Release the current RC branch as 21.4. That was discussed some weeks ago, but no pretest has begun yet, so maybe it is better to skip this if it is going to take a long time anyway. > (2) Feature freeze on HEAD. > (3) Merge HEAD into RC branch, and make it 21.4.50. I think making a new branch would be easier than merging. I doubt there are important bugfixes in the RC branch that are not already in HEAD.