From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:15:06 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ekkjiy9x.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> References: <1096291271.415813c757a26@imp6-q.free.fr> <20040927134714.GA20012@fencepost> <87hdphx91c.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87655wswkv.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <01c4a6f8$Blat.v2.2.2$f6ef61c0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096557434 20639 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 15:17:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:17:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jmarant@free.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 17:16:57 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CD2fx-0001k2-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:16:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD2mL-0002nw-Bi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:23:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD2m7-0002nm-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:23:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD2m6-0002nQ-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD2m6-0002nG-D3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:23:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.93.216.237] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CD2fU-0008Ag-2m; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:16:28 -0400 Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (omen.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E933FB1; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:16:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0A08E410A1; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:15:06 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c4a6f8$Blat.v2.2.2$f6ef61c0@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:21:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27712 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27712 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > The way it worked until now was that if a decision was made to release > the version X.N from a branch, the version number on the trunk was > bumped up to X.N+1.50. This involves running "M-x set-version RET" > from admin.el. So the presumption was that there won't be more than about 50 bugfixes before the next "primary release". I suppose that has been true historically speaking with respect to the Debian packages, though the three number versioning scheme would avoid the whole concern. To a large extent how many bugfix releases we could make in a year or so will depend on how the developers want to handle the "bugfix only" testing process. Will it be the same process as for a "bigger" release, or can it be handled differently since the changes allowed are much more restricted? A related question is what relevance/relationship (if any) should the Debian release process have? (In Debian, we normally release a new package as soon as we have a fix, it goes to unstable, and then it waits there for a time. If "nothing goes wrong" with it or anything it depends on during that time, then that package migrates to testing for eventual inclusion in our next stable release.) -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4