From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reordering etc/NEWS Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 08:53:08 -0700 Message-ID: <876470ekuz.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <2wmz0iriyj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178812586 5523 80.91.229.12 (10 May 2007 15:56:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:56:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 10 17:56:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HmB09-0004Lk-Aa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 17:56:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HmB7T-0003ZI-3u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 12:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HmB4V-0001kh-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 12:00:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HmB4U-0001jv-76 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 12:00:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HmB4S-0001jm-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 12:00:49 -0400 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.193.61]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HmAx5-0003OD-RZ; Thu, 10 May 2007 11:53:11 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39153 ident=kfogel) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HmAx4-0000BQ-4u; Thu, 10 May 2007 10:53:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 10 May 2007 09\:06\:27 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:70767 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > If people want to raise an issue with me without pressuring me, then I > will discuss it rationally. I think my recent posts have met this criterion. Basically, I proposed always having an open trunk (or some place where new changes can be checked in). We'd use branches: a) To isolate release lines from trunk churn. b) To isolate trunk from large, unstable batches of new code until that code is ready. Such a system can be started at any point, and would allow pent-up development energy to be put to constructive use. I've seen it work very well on other projects. Thanks, -Karl