From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:44:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83vak17bn7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83377mls4d.fsf@gnu.org> <87a81g813i.fsf@lolita> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506699873 23084 195.159.176.226 (29 Sep 2017 15:44:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:44:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: joaotavora@gmail.com (=?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28gVMOhdm9yYQ==?=) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 29 17:44:28 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dxxSk-0005Vw-NO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:44:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35803 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxxSr-0002z4-W1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:44:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58135) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxxSl-0002yv-Rd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:44:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxxSh-0002K8-EG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47216) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxxSh-0002K4-An; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:44:23 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1319 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dxxSg-0004HW-Al; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:44:23 -0400 In-reply-to: <87a81g813i.fsf@lolita> (joaotavora@gmail.com) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218904 Archived-At: > From: joaotavora@gmail.com (João Távora) > Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:09:53 +0100 > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > 1. Either the half-baked work is reverted in the emacs-26 branch; or > > 2. It is left in as-is. This is not recommended. Although > it doesn't break any compatibility I know of, it's not good work > at all. Among other things, it introduces a user-visible variable that I got > rid of in the meantime. > > 3. "A few finishing touches" aka "makeup on a pig" are applied. > > 4. The bulk of my flymake rewrite somehow makes it into emacs-26 in > time. It would be nice to see it in a release, but it's certainly not > "a few finishing touches" > > 5. ? > > Sorry for noticing this so late in the process. > > The flymake rewrite is progressing quite nicely in the > scratch/flymake-refactor branch. It is mostly ready for review, I will > post here very soon. I'm confused: why are there parts of this work on emacs-26, and other parts on a scratch branch? Does the latter continue where the former left off? or is it an entirely different code? Also, how long (calendar-wise) do you envision it to take you to get to the point where the code is not "half-baked"? Thanks.