From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Will there be an Emacs 28.3 release? Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2023 15:01:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83r0qr5td6.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12716"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 04 14:01:23 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1q5mQF-000378-KO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2023 14:01:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q5mPl-0006Fp-6c; Sun, 04 Jun 2023 08:00:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q5mPa-0006FH-LJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2023 08:00:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q5mPZ-0000i6-1k; Sun, 04 Jun 2023 08:00:41 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=oDyebhcZDqRXcaH845chkHJt7p9ZjSB1ZOX7ki91O58=; b=EYFRt3LliWmx OHr9bhNDYpkwW8JFf1JobnmEdMSrjE/AF/AToJQf7fmNZeY6knU2Jr1SFFLMXw49OE6nYwExxsmU/ oLlD8H3mx3xC8zzVRjcurIPilmaLXBqgqdXa8maqlWIs5kTAk0Z0r2uQWiHFYMMbrHmYPOclZEPgm aQS5VyZ2LOUimdFXNt0fmDthTIJsd5Ht1QEdvkhnVwM5DihLqxPVxQpMCD+7z47MExuaHCJzVWYZ5 wzGcedBz2D2DfI/NT0nzi1eCEWZGotxHo9J5Yxu+lYE1MWhmOdThJPvP/jlGRV1Y2mniLJzNMEP6e nzuUrVLhZ9sHWgZLgGgQlA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q5mPP-0000ig-Ut; Sun, 04 Jun 2023 08:00:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Ulrich Mueller on Sun, 04 Jun 2023 13:05:14 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:306609 Archived-At: > From: Ulrich Mueller > Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2023 13:05:14 +0200 > > The 28.3-rc1 release candidate appeared on 2023-02-19 which was more > than three months ago. The statement at the time was that the 28.3 > release would be made "hopefully already later today" but apparently > that hasn't happened. There's also no activity on the emacs-28 branch > since February. Meanwhile, the pretest for 29.1 has started. > > So, will there be an 28.3 release at all? Only if someone steps forward to finish the job started by Stefan Kangas, who prepared the RC. I myself cannot afford adding that to what I have to do already, including the v29.1 release process. Sorry. > I am asking because Gentoo has a package for the release candidate with > testing keywords since February, and I wonder what will be the way > forward. If it was certain that there won't be a 28.3 release, then we > would presumably label our 28.3_rc1 package as stable and drop 28.2. > (It has seen three months of testing after all. :) I think making your own 28.3 release is a good move, all things considering.