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: Merging mistakes Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:18:26 +0200 Message-ID: <837hfph8hp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8362v998xv.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291475922 8492 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2010 15:18:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 15:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 04 16:18:36 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1POtsh-0008LW-3u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 16:18:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48104 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1POtsf-0007K9-I2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:18:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42477 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1POtsb-0007Jr-5P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:18:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1POtsZ-0001Yj-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:18:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:55158) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1POtsZ-0001Y3-O8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:18:27 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LCW00M00SWMRJ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:18:26 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.69.203]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LCW00MZRT6OL8B0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:18:26 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:133404 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:00:24 -0500 > > > Any suggestions for how to avoid destabilizing the release branch by > > too indiscriminate back-ports from the trunk? > > But you're right that we need to be careful with it. We haven't > received too many bug reports about the pretest code, tho, so it's not > clear whether we have a problem here. There were a few similar mistakes recently, so I think we do have a problem. We shouldn't wait until we see bug reports, IMO.