From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Move to a cadence release model? Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:42:49 +0200 Message-ID: <8337wdn6uu.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447173802 7446 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2015 16:43:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:43:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 17:43:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwC0m-0003aO-8a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:43:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwC0l-00061h-RW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:43:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57360) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwC0d-0005uI-3p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwC0Z-0000MD-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:43:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:41386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwC0Y-0000Lk-Pw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXL00800Y817N00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:42:17 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXL00NXWYE7YM80@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:42:07 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193886 Archived-At: > From: John Wiegley > Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 06:28:01 -0800 > Cc: Emacs developers > > I have used the "Git flow" model in the past to good ends. It too could have > avoided the "long pause" between 24.5 and 25.1, and the necessity of > periodically freezing master before a release. We could avoid the feature freeze altogether, if we wanted, and instead cut the release branch and work on the release there without freezing master.