From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Periodical releases Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:43:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <71588355363047528F16FE989690A488@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325742197 4506 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2012 05:43:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 05:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 05 06:43:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rig6b-000457-AK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:43:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60618 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rig6a-0007vJ-9g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:43:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53609) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rig6X-0007vA-M2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rig6V-0006NW-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:43:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:40523) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rig6V-0006NS-IB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rig6U-00015S-Ks; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:43:06 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Dave Abrahams on Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:34:25 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147317 Archived-At: > From: Dave Abrahams > Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:34:25 -0500 > > Is it not possible to have thorougness and high quality with more > frequent releases of smaller scope? It is, with more resources than we currently have. > Maybe the problem (if there is one) is that trunk is allowed to > drift too far from a releasable state. You cannot control that drift without a test suite with decent coverage. We don't have that yet. We don't even have a concerted effort to get there, AFAIK. Volunteers are welcome, as always.