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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: rgm@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org,
	Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
	cyd@stupidchicken.com
Subject: Re: Proposal for a 22.2/trunk development model
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:37:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85odjgm0co.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706161422.l5GEMTJ5009556@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sat\, 16 Jun 2007 07\:22\:24 -0700")

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>   > I have decided that we should not merge unicode-2 until a couple
>   > of months have gone by and we know what should be done about
>   > Emacs 22.2.  Until then I want to avoid far-reaching changes in
>   > the trunk.  Please stop making a fuss about a couple of months.
>   > 
>   > However, it is ok to add new features which are not so
>   > far-reaching in their effects on the code.  Even the multi-tty
>   > branch could be merged in (once we decide what to do about the
>   > environment).
>
> This development model would undoubtedly achieve the goal of being
> able to make a high quality 22.2 release.

Undoubtedly?  Richard is talking about the trunk, you are talking
about 22.2 which is to be done off EMACS_22_BASE.  So I don't see the
two areas actually related, _unless_ one plans to _scrap_
EMACS_22_BASE and basically copy trunk over it.  Which nobody has
proposed, and which I'd consider an even worse idea than quite a few
others I have blown my top over.

> Here is a proposal that would still achieve the same goal, with the
> added advantage that it would get us closer to a future 23.1 release
> at a higher speed:
>  * ask for 2-3 (or more) volunteers that would: 
>      - backport all the changes that you'd consider important from
>      trunk to the 22.x branch
>      - develop fixes for bugs that only occur on the 22.x branch
>      - analyze the reported 22.1 bugs and fix them or ask for help to
>      fix them

I think that analyzing and fixing reported bugs should remain the
responsibility of every developer: we don't want to have something as
important as that go through the 22.x bottleneck.

>      - ask you to stop all development on the trunk until some critical
>      bug is fixed on the branch.

Huh?  Care for an example, hypothetical if you like?

>  * open the trunk for any new development
>    Now, during the summer, is a very good time to allow for more
>    development to happen: a lot of people have more free time, we'd
>    want them to use that time for emacs as much as possible.

The trunk _has_ been formally opened for new development.  It is just
several people have dissenting ideas about what this does and what it
should mean.

> Do you find such a plan acceptable? IMHO a plan like this would
> satisfy the people that ask for more development on the trunk.

In the end, it does not matter what words we put into a plan.  It only
counts what we will be doing.

> PS: In order to reduce the number of messages on the list, please
> allow RMS to reply to this and agree/disagree with the principle of
> this before posting alternate better plans or improvements to this
> one.

Richard already _did_ declare the trunk open for new development.
Getting him to agree again seems pretty pointless: in the abstract, we
already _have_ consensus.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-16 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 122+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-13 18:41 Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories Reiner Steib
2007-06-13 19:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-13 21:47   ` Reiner Steib
2007-06-13 22:21     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-13 22:41       ` Glenn Morris
2007-06-13 23:22         ` Chong Yidong
2007-06-14  6:31           ` Emacs 23 development policy (was: Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories) Reiner Steib
2007-06-14  7:25             ` David Reitter
2007-06-14 13:42               ` Adrian Robert
2007-06-14 19:56                 ` Emacs 23 development policy Stefan Monnier
2007-06-14 16:20           ` Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories Richard Stallman
2007-06-14 16:27             ` Chong Yidong
2007-06-15  0:57               ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-15  2:03                 ` Miles Bader
2007-06-15  3:14                   ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-15  2:35                 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-15 19:22                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 21:48                     ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-16 18:50                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-16 19:23                         ` Chong Yidong
2007-06-16 19:28                           ` David Kastrup
2007-06-17  8:54                             ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-17 19:47                               ` David Kastrup
2007-06-17  8:54                           ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-18  1:36                             ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-18 21:30                               ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-19  5:01                                 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-19  5:31                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-19 22:26                                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20 13:18                                     ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-20 17:36                                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 22:12                     ` David Kastrup
2007-06-16 10:48                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-16 12:09                         ` David Kastrup
2007-06-16 13:01                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-16 13:13                             ` David Kastrup
2007-06-16 13:23                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-16 14:05                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-16 16:34                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-16 17:38                                     ` David Kastrup
2007-06-16 18:26                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-16 13:55                               ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2007-06-16 14:16                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-17 23:07                             ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-18  3:10                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-18  5:18                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-18  6:01                                   ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-18 19:12                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-18 21:12                                       ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-19 22:25                                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-18 19:11                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-18 21:30                                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-18  6:53                                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-18  7:24                                   ` David Kastrup
2007-06-18  8:34                                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-18  8:50                                       ` David Kastrup
2007-06-18 19:23                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-19  0:53                                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-19  5:17                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-19  5:37                                         ` David Kastrup
2007-06-19  6:09                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-19 17:53                                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-19  5:21                                       ` David Kastrup
2007-06-19  2:19                                     ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-19  5:20                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-23  8:13                                   ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-06-16 18:50                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-16 14:22                     ` Proposal for a 22.2/trunk development model (was: Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories) Dan Nicolaescu
2007-06-16 14:37                       ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-06-16 16:01                         ` Proposal for a 22.2/trunk development model Dan Nicolaescu
2007-06-16 16:41                           ` David Kastrup
2007-06-16 17:05                             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-07-01 20:40                       ` Proposal for a 22.2/trunk development model (was: Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories) Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 19:21               ` Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories Richard Stallman
2007-06-14 16:48             ` Jay Belanger
2007-06-17 13:47     ` Reiner Steib
2007-07-09  2:22       ` Miles Bader
2007-07-09 17:21         ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-10 10:33           ` Miles Bader
2007-07-10 12:19             ` Daiki Ueno
2007-07-10 15:51               ` Leo
2007-07-10 20:05                 ` Miles Bader
2006-12-16  2:58                   ` [bug] PGG shows ?? when prompt for passphrase Leo
2006-12-17  1:30                     ` Daiki Ueno
2006-12-17  2:18                       ` Leo
2006-12-17  3:28                         ` Daiki Ueno
2006-12-17  4:18                           ` Leo
2006-12-17  4:28                             ` Daiki Ueno
2006-12-17  5:27                               ` Leo
2006-12-18  1:12                               ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-18  1:34                                 ` Daiki Ueno
     [not found]                                   ` <E1GwhJI-0003jz-GI@fencepost.gnu.org>
2006-12-19 23:55                                     ` Daiki Ueno
     [not found]                           ` <E1Gw733-00050z-Ic@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found]                             ` <c371ac3b-6629-4e1a-a023-92982698664b@well-done.deisui.org>
     [not found]                               ` <6662a3b9-1148-4aa0-bd2d-29a67be38d76@well-done.deisui.org>
     [not found]                                 ` <E1Gx14z-0000Zc-Lm@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found]                                   ` <5a520e06-4ee3-4c4f-9345-d49a666516f9@well-done.deisui.org>
     [not found]                                     ` <E1GyDFo-00006s-IW@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found]                                       ` <7f60c21d-2f66-4c4b-9abb-e377ca24a153@well-done.deisui.org>
     [not found]                                         ` <fe674575-f87f-46e4-8287-6481b3fc6f03@well-done.deisui.org>
     [not found]                                           ` <E1Gz20z-0003hC-Nb@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found]                                             ` <844cd50a-ec18-4b09-a057-35bdfb5173fd@well-done.deisui.org>
     [not found]                                               ` <E1GzP1P-0006JH-Lb@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found]                                                 ` <8ba25607-9381-4a27-ae53-8b0f3ccc3ac1@well-done.deisui.org>
     [not found]                                                   ` <E1Gzg8G-0002bZ-JG@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found]                                                     ` <366fa6ab-42a0-4df5-a17f-4ac3d1744d78@well-done.deisui.org>
     [not found]                                                       ` <E1H0Jui-0005YH-HB@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found]                                                         ` <ec5e0f1b-45c5-4ed5-ae1c-766fa33e3ee0@well-done.deisui.org>
2006-12-30 18:24                                                           ` pgg-encrypt is a pain in the neck Richard Stallman
2006-12-30 19:41                                                             ` Sascha Wilde
2006-12-31  1:02                                                               ` Daiki Ueno
2006-12-31 12:27                                                                 ` Sascha Wilde
2006-12-31 14:07                                                                   ` Reiner Steib
2006-12-31 14:38                                                                     ` Daiki Ueno
2006-12-31 22:13                                                                     ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-31  1:47                                                               ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-31 12:54                                                                 ` Sascha Wilde
2006-12-31 14:13                                                                   ` Daiki Ueno
2006-12-31 22:13                                                                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-02  0:28                                                                     ` Daiki Ueno
2007-01-02 16:37                                                                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-02 19:53                                                                         ` Reiner Steib
2006-12-31 22:13                                                                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-02 18:43                                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2006-12-31  1:46                                                           ` Richard Stallman
     [not found]                                                       ` <E1H0Juj-0005YY-RU@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-07-10 22:47                                                         ` Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories Daiki Ueno
2007-07-10 22:54                                                           ` Miles Bader
2007-07-11  0:07                                                             ` Daiki Ueno
2007-07-11 21:03                                                           ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-10 21:29                   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-11  2:25                     ` Miles Bader
2007-07-11 21:03                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-11  3:05                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-11  3:43                   ` Daiki Ueno
2007-07-11  9:38                     ` Sascha Wilde
2007-07-11 10:22                       ` Daiki Ueno
2007-07-11 21:04                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-14  8:38 ` Miles Bader

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