From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rasmus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Next release from master Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:42:29 +0100 Message-ID: <877fid5u3e.fsf@gmx.us> References: <8qegda3kfg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83h9i695n5.fsf@gnu.org> <87si118q6e.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455061394 30604 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2016 23:43:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 23:43:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 10 00:43:05 2016 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 1aTHw0-0001Le-Qv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:43:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33611 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTHvw-00023O-Tk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:43:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40088) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTHvf-00021z-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:42:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTHvb-0005wx-Lp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:42:43 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTHvb-0005wU-F9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:42:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aTHvZ-0000tN-TX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:42:37 +0100 Original-Received: from x4db26a8c.dyn.telefonica.de ([77.178.106.140]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:42:37 +0100 Original-Received: from rasmus by x4db26a8c.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:42:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x4db26a8c.dyn.telefonica.de Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwCAAAAAByaaZbAAAAAmJLR0QA/4ePzL8AAAAJcEhZ cwAAAEgAAABIAEbJaz4AAAHKSURBVEjHlZTLlexACENnf3NRLiRCLmSiUBQR5y08v3Z73P1Y2nWr EAg+9iZ88e3j5nzqfwHlXeDIxbwN9OzuNn4bqN1EeDd5Byit25Ck/AKY7BpFXZRlXgBduxHTtBhp 6HsA7Q4yjKrRULdAwDPUgKsahXqUfX6hqCr3oGQaPC3fihZNxTC7A+1+VPEEmIYEDvXYemj4cx+q oVcwG8FsvwDc0BFoB5i17oEIKlTRqsI+jHUDIFXTDaQwk3vAjCRmoKI+W/bqBRcQQ5niNBRXGmag Nx4PvDLf7pbSjsfOPrn7CshkhCSp5p2Jy0jjHD2pvASsrzSyu65XI+o+TsQFnSfiCfiyZgMg79Tt APUcqaQ4wtt/2zvzq01uAZB9KO3H47ih37wbqMeV+Rs4fp+2TtWxSq6AuQAORZrrlFrnLfTt4FxX yVfrd3e36rpKZ+/kx/O5TKkfalyi8klJF8Dvac9nF/BuPCWegZ+Esj5mFNBXA8+AC8q7G7ta0F/m +IwTYJgB1bR6nBHcAUFZAQMV+8sXfwKmNwDHxYp7T4+cAWVbqq4qdTKu+5S+TTH+Xpj8PPkseqA9 MzPjJE/3P5e1eREnDeL/AHgX+Ac1wLS1jG2Y1gAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4mbFMRLhHknTmFMxSXWzs4R5m8k= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:199645 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >>>> How should we know/decide if something is intended for 26.1 or for 25.2? >>> An excellent question. 25.x should not change APIs, without compelling reason; >>> adding new functionality might be OK, but depends on the scope. The best rule >>> of thumb is: when in doubt, ask here. >> >> IOW, "master" is not really open for changes? > > I think this is all kinda confusing. In the past, we've had one release > branch (currently emacs-25) and one branch for development (of "normal", > uncontroversial features). I think that worked very well. If we're now > to be in a tripartite world of > release-branch/kinda-sorta-next-release-branch-which-is-called-master/new-feature-branch > world, that's both unusual and I would give us virtually no testing of > new-feature-branch (since most developers just live on "master"). I agree. Feature branches are annoying from a testing point of view. It would have to be a very exciting branch before I’d bother to merge it... Rasmus -- This is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put