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 release from master Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:25:52 +0200 Message-ID: <83io2m6mwf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8qegda3kfg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56A185D8.9030807@yandex.ru> <83r3ha6po4.fsf@gnu.org> <8760ymavaq.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453451158 28812 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2016 08:25:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 08:25:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 22 09:25:57 2016 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 1aMX2a-0000yP-BC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:25:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51260 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMX2Z-0007U2-HZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 03:25:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMX2N-0007Tv-Kl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 03:25:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMX2M-0000N6-Oh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 03:25:43 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34072) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMX2F-0000LI-Sf; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 03:25:35 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4949 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aMX2F-00046D-39; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 03:25:35 -0500 In-reply-to: <8760ymavaq.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:10:53 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:198564 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > Cc: John Wiegley , emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru > Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:10:53 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > This problem should only exist with externally maintained packages > > that are then merged into Emacs's repository. If such a package has > > faster release schedule, it might have such a problem because some > > change not appropriate for the Emacs release branch doesn't want to > > wait for the next major Emacs release. > > Counter example: kqueue integration. It was a candidate for 25.1, but > didn't reach it because it was one or two weeks too late. > > That was two months ago ... and now, according to that plan, it would be > postponed until Emacs 26 appears. There's even no pretest for Emacs 25.1 > until now. Actually, we could backport the kqueue changes to emacs-25 branch, IMO. The pretest should be out in a couple of days, so if we hurry, we can make the deadline. John?