Feature freeze

Feature freeze

[Chong Yidong]

Hi people,

It's time to begin the feature freeze.

A couple of people still have small non-bugfix patches scheduled to go
into CVS; please check these in over the 24 hours, or email me if you
have problems.  Otherwise, don't commit any more new features.  If in
doubt, email emacs-devel for discussion.

Two exceptions: we'll allow the proced.el and rmail-mbox changes.

There currently isn't any detailed schedule for the release.  My hope
(and I think Stefan concurs) is to have 23.1 out in about six months
from now.  Maybe this is optimistic; we'll see.

My rough plan is to go through the bug list and finish those pertinent
to both Emacs 22 and Emacs 23 first.  About 2 weeks from now, I'll start
the Emacs 22.3 pretest, which hopefully won't take much effort and can
be completed in a month or two.  Once 22.3 is released, we'll take
another look at the bug count and see how soon afterwards we can start
the 23.1 pretest.

There are 180+ outstanding bugs, which can be browsed at the bugtracker
here:

http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=emacs&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable

Let's get to work on these.  If you need help using the bug tracker,
please email me.

Thanks!

Re: Feature freeze

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <87tze6mz3c.fsf@stupidchicken.com>, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> Hi people,
> It's time to begin the feature freeze.

> A couple of people still have small non-bugfix patches scheduled to go
> into CVS; please check these in over the 24 hours, or email me if you
> have problems.  Otherwise, don't commit any more new features.  If in
> doubt, email emacs-devel for discussion.

> Two exceptions: we'll allow the proced.el and rmail-mbox changes.

> There currently isn't any detailed schedule for the release.  My hope
> (and I think Stefan concurs) is to have 23.1 out in about six months
> from now.  Maybe this is optimistic; we'll see.

> My rough plan is to go through the bug list and finish those pertinent
> to both Emacs 22 and Emacs 23 first.  About 2 weeks from now, I'll start
> the Emacs 22.3 pretest, which hopefully won't take much effort and can
> be completed in a month or two.  Once 22.3 is released, we'll take
> another look at the bug count and see how soon afterwards we can start
> the 23.1 pretest.

As I wrote before, I'm now working on the new implementation
of automatic-character-composition that doesn't use text
property.  The work is not for a new feature, but I realized
that an element in composition-function-table must be
changed slightly, and a few new Lisp functions must be
added (in a broad sense, it's a new feature).  Please let me
check-in the necessary changes for that work even after the
feature freeze.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp

new auto-composition [Re: Feature freeze]

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <E1KOjfN-0003Ya-I5@etlken.m17n.org>, Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:

> As I wrote before, I'm now working on the new implementation
> of automatic-character-composition that doesn't use text
> property.  The work is not for a new feature, but I realized
> that an element in composition-function-table must be
> changed slightly, and a few new Lisp functions must be
> added (in a broad sense, it's a new feature).  Please let me
> check-in the necessary changes for that work even after the
> feature freeze.

I've just committed the changes, but I didn't tested the new
codes on Windows and Mac.  Maintainers of those platforms,
please check the new codes.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp