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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Periodical releases
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:58:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4ze3lf8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r4ze27ym.fsf@boostpro.com> (Dave Abrahams's message of "Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:34:25 -0500")

Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> Is it not possible to have thorougness and high quality with more
> frequent releases of smaller scope?  Maybe the problem (if there is
> one) is that trunk is allowed to drift too far from a releasable
> state.  I'm just saying.

Features like bidi can't really be added piecemeal, and this goes back
to Eli's point about bit-rotting feature trees.

Frankly, I'm not convinced there's any problem.  Emacs 23.3 was released
less than one year ago, and we are already well into the pretest for
24.1.  Doing considerably better would require resources we don't have.
Note that all those projects that are being held up as models for their
periodic release systems have people working on them full time!



  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-05  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-31 12:00 Periodical releases Carsten Mattner
2012-01-01 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-02 10:40   ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 11:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-02 12:57       ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 17:31         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-02 19:05         ` Drew Adams
2012-01-02 19:54           ` chad
2012-01-02 21:36             ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 20:29           ` Eric Schulte
2012-01-02 21:31             ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 20:41           ` Lluís
2012-01-02 21:23           ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-02 22:14             ` Drew Adams
2012-01-02 22:27               ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05  2:34           ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05  2:58             ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-01-05  3:36               ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05  4:23                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-01-05 13:25                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-05 13:41                   ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05  9:31               ` Bastien
2012-01-05 10:11                 ` Leo
2012-01-05 11:31                   ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05 12:56                   ` Jambunathan K
2012-01-05 14:00                     ` Leo
2012-01-05 14:30                       ` Jambunathan K
2012-01-05 11:28                 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05 14:18                   ` Eric Schulte
2012-01-05 11:33                 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-05  5:43             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-05 12:20               ` Dave Abrahams
2012-01-05 15:34             ` Drew Adams
2012-01-03 22:23     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-03 18:18 ` What's in a feature? (was: Periodical releases) Bastien
2012-01-04  3:24   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-04 10:03     ` What's in a feature? Bastien
2012-01-04 12:43       ` Juanma Barranquero

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