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: Release procedure. Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 12:38:20 -0400 Message-ID: <87bqgwd1xf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87lkg23fbn.fsf@red-bean.com> <861wht17al.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87mz0gvcf5.fsf@red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178555797 1265 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2007 16:36:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 16:36:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 07 18:36:35 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 1Hl6CO-0002uq-SF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 18:36:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hl6JN-0005qK-IZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 12:43:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hl6JJ-0005nb-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 12:43:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hl6JG-0005lT-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 12:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hl6JF-0005kt-RJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 12:43:37 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.19.1.138]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hl6CF-0004TF-4t; Mon, 07 May 2007 12:36:23 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2AA164EB5B; Mon, 7 May 2007 12:38:20 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87mz0gvcf5.fsf@red-bean.com> (Karl Fogel's message of "Mon\, 07 May 2007 09\:14\:22 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.99 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:70622 Archived-At: Karl Fogel writes: > But, just as a data point: I'm in the same boat with David. For > whatever reason, I also do not understand what the branch is for. Originally, the idea was to release Emacs 22.1 promptly after branching. The branch would then be used for 22.x development. The trouble now is that the release is stuck, mainly (but not exclusively) because of the python issue.