From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org
Subject: Release process (was Re: Move to a cadence release model?)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:17:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86611975jo.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m26119bxcj.fsf@Vulcan.attlocal.net> (John Wiegley's message of "Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:03:40 -0800")
John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> We could avoid the feature freeze altogether, if we wanted, and instead cut
>> the release branch and work on the release there without freezing master.
>
> That would be my preference. Let's cut release-25.1 this upcoming Friday night
> at the freeze date.
>
> It does mean a commitment by developers to use and test with this branch until
> the release is out.
Which is precisely why we have a feature freeze phase; it enforces this
desire.
I know I would be _very_ tempted to ignore the release branch, to keep
working on my latest Cool Feature instead.
If I know I have to wait for a release before I can merge to master
again, I'll work on the release as much as I can.
--
-- Stephe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-11 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 139+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-10 13:57 Move to a cadence release model? John Yates
2015-11-10 14:28 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-10 17:03 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-11 0:17 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2015-11-11 0:24 ` Release process (was Re: Move to a cadence release model?) John Wiegley
2015-11-11 3:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 10:45 ` Stephen Leake
2015-11-11 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 20:39 ` Too few people taking care of bug reports, was: " Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-11 20:50 ` Too few people taking care of bug reports, John Wiegley
2015-11-11 21:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-11 21:06 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-11 21:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 21:10 ` Too few people taking care of bug reports, was: Re: Release process (was Re: Move to a cadence release model?) Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 21:15 ` Too few people taking care of bug reports, John Wiegley
2015-11-11 21:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 21:23 ` Too few people taking care of bug reports, was: Re: Release process (was Re: Move to a cadence release model?) Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-11 21:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 21:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-11 21:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 21:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-11 23:06 ` bug policy (was Re: Release process) Stephen Leake
2015-11-12 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-12 16:39 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-12 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-12 17:50 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-12 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 16:39 ` Release process (was Re: Move to a cadence release model?) John Wiegley
2015-11-12 8:19 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-17 0:09 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-12 8:15 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-10 14:32 ` Move to a cadence release model? Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-10 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-10 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-10 17:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-11-10 17:44 ` Automate Emacs UI testing? (was: Move to a cadence release model?) John Wiegley
2015-11-10 18:01 ` Automate Emacs UI testing? Ashton Kemerling
2015-11-10 18:02 ` Automate Emacs UI testing? (was: Move to a cadence release model?) Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-10 19:16 ` Automate Emacs UI testing? joakim
2015-11-10 19:37 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-11 16:59 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-11 17:18 ` joakim
2015-11-11 23:27 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-12 2:26 ` official Emacs Docker image (was: Automate Emacs UI testing?) Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-12 15:49 ` official Emacs Docker image Nic Ferrier
2015-11-12 21:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-11-12 22:31 ` official Emacs Docker image (was: Automate Emacs UI testing?) Richard Stallman
2015-11-12 23:32 ` official Emacs Docker image joakim
2016-07-06 15:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-07 21:56 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-08 13:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-09 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-09 23:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-10 14:25 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-12 22:45 ` John Wiegley
2016-07-13 13:12 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-13 16:34 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-30 0:10 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-30 0:53 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-30 21:36 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-30 22:01 ` joakim
2016-12-30 22:08 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-31 18:25 ` Richard Stallman
2017-01-27 14:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-01-27 19:45 ` Filipe Silva
2017-01-30 14:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-01-30 17:10 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-30 17:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-01-31 0:14 ` Filipe Silva
2017-01-31 14:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-01 3:03 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-01 15:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-02 2:53 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-02 5:13 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-02 14:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-03 7:00 ` Stefan Reichör
2017-02-03 11:18 ` Filipe Silva
2017-02-04 2:56 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-03 13:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-03 21:59 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-03 23:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-03 23:54 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-02-04 0:37 ` Filipe Silva
2017-02-04 1:12 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-02-04 1:32 ` Filipe Silva
2017-02-04 23:52 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-05 0:24 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-02-04 23:54 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-04 3:11 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-04 4:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-04 4:47 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-06 10:49 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2017-02-13 8:37 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-13 9:55 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2017-02-14 0:48 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-14 2:07 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-14 2:04 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-04 23:54 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-05 0:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-04 23:48 ` Richard Stallman
2017-01-28 2:18 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-21 15:01 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-03-02 15:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-03-03 10:09 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-03-03 10:15 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-03-08 20:30 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-03-13 10:03 ` Philippe Vaucher
2018-04-04 18:33 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-12-31 22:04 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-01 5:39 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-01-01 9:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-01 10:15 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-01-06 15:56 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-07 23:19 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-12-31 1:22 ` Yann Hodique
2016-12-31 2:08 ` John Wiegley
2017-01-28 11:06 ` Alex Bennée
2016-12-31 10:11 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-07-13 14:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-12 11:36 ` Automate Emacs UI testing? Mathieu Lirzin
2015-11-12 11:43 ` joakim
2015-11-10 18:20 ` Move to a cadence release model? Richard Stallman
2015-11-10 23:50 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-10 23:58 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-11 1:55 ` John Yates
2015-11-11 9:02 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-11 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-12 22:35 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-11 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-12 11:27 ` Stelian Iancu
2015-11-12 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-12 16:44 ` Stelian Iancu
2015-11-12 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-12 7:23 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-12 7:37 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-12 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-20 3:02 ` Stefan Monnier
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