From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Petton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Preparing for 24.5 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:21:43 +0100 Message-ID: <874mr8dyso.fsf@petton.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422634928 26119 80.91.229.3 (30 Jan 2015 16:22:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 30 17:22:07 2015 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 1YHEKb-0008TW-NZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:22:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37584 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHEKb-00029d-5k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:22:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45727) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHEKN-00029L-II for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:21:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHEKI-000286-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:21:51 -0500 Original-Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:36734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHEKH-00027z-Vi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:21:46 -0500 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 695FD20A1B for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:21:45 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:21:45 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=x-sasl-enc:references:from:to:cc:subject :in-reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= smtpout; bh=0UwX8HevvEYhP/uVtN+/+KdD158=; b=To6AdVaOcS7TRTaRI8RX vIVeKNIDmEYzURIV4yqzDGNoWFZ6fQvoYFr+ZORdr985taNBVQp/l/sGetTD60RE ggu+rLNDIImFAoQGy1nGv3EEfNS5XFeTv2e5mZ3K7U5YoGHgkM8zpjNDh0+ypxtH rdNzWGsFwxVAEHt+MVWPXnA= X-Sasl-enc: WmWuao/tKNFSjSiXKyPuFqaoCG+Wu/k/2PfhMmScq4cV 1422634905 Original-Received: from blueberry (unknown [31.211.216.84]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C270EC00290; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:21:44 -0500 (EST) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.9.6pre3; emacs 24.4.1 In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 66.111.4.27 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:182072 Archived-At: I think it could be fun to help with this, and even if I don't know much about the Emacs release process, I'm willing to learn, so I volunteer :) Nico Stefan Monnier writes: > There have been many bugs fixed in `emacs-24' but things have settled > there it seems, so we (my secret agents and I) think it's a good time to > start preparing for a 24.5 release. > > So we're looking for a kind soul who'd like to help with this, i.e. take > on the job of making the pretest tarballs (actually this 24.5 release > should have a very short pretest, so the "s" in "tarballs" should not > be needed), uploading them, making announcements, keeping track of > bug reports related to that branch and deciding which ones need to be > fixed before the release, those kinds of things (Glenn can tell you > more about it). > > This is a great opportunity for someone to get more involved in Emacs's > development. And as usual, that person can count on all of us to > provide all the whining and screaming he/she might need. > > > Stefan -- Nicolas Petton http://nicolas-petton.fr