From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:18:06 -0500 Message-ID: <877jaalwq9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <55DA5764-DDB6-4858-9CE2-065857CDC863@gnu.org> <3AFF0594-F842-4079-9A3B-D1CF7358A281@raeburn.org> <0D268F0D-B278-4307-86E3-E0FCE7A3B57B@raeburn.org> <87pso6anui.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87wtibiti7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134364810 32339 80.91.229.2 (12 Dec 2005 05:20:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 12 06:20:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Elg5N-0006XU-Nn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:18:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Elg5l-00066S-Bz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:19:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Elg57-00062A-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:18:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Elg56-00061d-Pu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:18:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Elg56-00061X-Hy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:18:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [18.95.6.185] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Elg6k-0004Bo-FT; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:20:18 -0500 Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EFEFB1E42BB; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:18:07 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:57:05 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:47509 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > As Kim has mentioned, it is unclear what bugs you are referring to. > There are only a couple of bugs listed in FOR-RELEASE. The bugs in > emacs-pretest-bug, which are usually minor problems, get fixed at > about the same rate as they are being reported, i.e. after a few days. > Maybe the reason you have the idea that bugs aren't being fixed > because developers sometimes don't send a follow-up email to the list > when they check their fix into CVS. > > I hope soon to have time to recheck the saved mail. > But there are several messages I have posted more than once on > this list, with no response, which will go into FOR-RELEASE > when I get future reminders. That does not mean no one is working on fixing those few bugs; just that they have not been fixed yet. It is not an argument against starting the pretest. As people have pointed out several times, it is better to know about bugs earlier rather than later, since bug fixing takes place in parallel, not sequentially.