From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus branches and sync with Emacs
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:46:19 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wia6gpg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3eis3cqxx.fsf@dod.no>
Steinar Bang writes:
> >>>>> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>:
>
> > What the bzr repo will make definitely *much* easier *immediately* is
> > for you to keep your own bleeding edge branch locally, and then push
> > from there to the Gnus mainline when it's "open for commits". You'll
> > need to learn more of bzr than you might otherwise, but it's worth it.
>
> FWIW I have been using the Gnus trunk for over ten years now (closing on
> twelve, I think), and except for when lars were rolling releases,
I'm not suggesting *any* workflow for Gnus. I'm saying that
some things become easier with a dVCS and others do not.
> If you are going to do big changes, it's much better to let them loose
> on a bunch of testers as early as possible, instead of sitting with them
> on a branch just testing them yourself, and then committing them
> big-bang to the trunk.
Sure; but "early as possible" definitely varies by project. Gnus as
an independent project from which Emacs syncs occasionally is a rather
different entity from one which is more closely integrated to Emacs,
eg, supplying reusable components to mail-mode and eventually RMail.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <m2k534bghy.fsf@gwdg-mac-engster.top.gwdg.de>
2009-07-18 20:21 ` Gnus branches and sync with Emacs (was: Branch for 23.1?) Reiner Steib
2009-07-20 17:23 ` Gnus branches and sync with Emacs Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-20 18:18 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-20 20:42 ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-21 1:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-21 16:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-21 17:27 ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-21 20:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-22 7:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-26 17:08 ` Steinar Bang
2009-07-27 1:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
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