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: Next pretest, and branching plans Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:49:11 +0200 Message-ID: <83fx4vwuvc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <873a0yhknd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <136A0B1647B74A53A26506F872BECC6E@us.oracle.com> <83iq9rx0bk.fsf@gnu.org> <557EE28DF6994313B6A4990FEBBD387A@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1266807986 4456 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2010 03:06:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 21:50:25 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 1NivKK-00036p-VI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:49:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46432 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NivKK-0004c3-9U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:49:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NivKF-0004Zs-1Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:49:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42593 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NivKE-0004YY-7d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NivKD-0001j1-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:64975) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NivKD-0001iv-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:49:13 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KY500K00OC2UI00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:49:12 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.213.68]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KY500K44ODZUO00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:49:12 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <557EE28DF6994313B6A4990FEBBD387A@us.oracle.com> 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:121264 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Cc: , > Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:35:02 -0800 > > > > Perhaps more importantly, there will be fewer (far fewer, > > > IMO) new bug reports from Windows users for the latest code. > > > > > > Instead of a pretest, you will, in effect, just wait until > > > after the release to get such bug reports. The purpose > > > of the pretest will thus be defeated, except for those > > > Windows pretesters who are willing to build Emacs. > > > > It's not clear what statistics you have to back this up. > > To back what up? The claim that the purpose of the pretest will be defeated. > There can be many reasons why someone cannot or does not wish to build Emacs. We are here to help overcome whatever difficulties you have. > And if building it is so simple, and you have already built the pretest, then > why not post your binary of it? Building is simple, but packaging and uploading is not.