From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release procedure. Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 09:14:22 -0700 Message-ID: <87mz0gvcf5.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <87lkg23fbn.fsf@red-bean.com> <861wht17al.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178554479 28293 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2007 16:14:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 16:14:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 07 18:14:37 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 1Hl5r9-0006DF-B3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 18:14:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hl5y7-0000k8-V4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 12:21:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hl5y3-0000iZ-AL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 12:21:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hl5xz-0000g8-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 12:21:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hl5xz-0000fc-LC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 12:21:39 -0400 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.193.61]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hl5qz-0008SL-1S; Mon, 07 May 2007 12:14:25 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54952 ident=kfogel) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hl5qx-0005Zj-Fs; Mon, 07 May 2007 11:14:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <861wht17al.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon\, 07 May 2007 08\:23\:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:70621 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Well, but we _did_ branch, and there is a complete lack of directions > about what the branch is supposed to be for. Previously it was agreed > that we'd use the trunk after branching for merging in multi-tty and > emacs-unicode-2, and use the branch for the 22.x series. > > At the current point of time, however, it appears like both trunk and > release branch are not supposed to be worked upon except by special > notice, and then both are synchronously updated. > > It does not make sense, and it makes it impossible for anybody to do > serious work. I can't confidently assert that there's a complete lack of direction about what the branch is for, because it's always possible that there was such direction and I simply didn't see it (although a permanent file in the tree would be better than a mailing list post, for that). 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.