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 08:25:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <71588355363047528F16FE989690A488@us.oracle.com> <87r4ze3lf8.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325769966 23063 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2012 13:26:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:26:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 05 14:26:02 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 1RinKU-0000V7-6E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:26:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RinKT-0002jz-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:26:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49343) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RinKP-0002jt-9U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:25:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RinKN-0008GE-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:25:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:47816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RinKN-0008GA-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:25:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RinKN-0007xG-6L; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:25:55 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Dave Abrahams on Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:36:24 -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:147337 Archived-At: > From: Dave Abrahams > Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:36:24 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > For what it's worth, Boost has no full-time people, and it releases four > times yearly. How tightly are the various libraries in Boost connected? I.e., if one of them is broken, how many others will become broken as result? Core features in Emacs are likely to break many different and unrelated features. Emacs is a program, not a library. The "People" page of the Boost site shows 48 developers. How intensely does each one of them work on Boost? For that matter, how many hours do you personally spend on Boost weekly, if I may ask? I would be surprised if Emacs had more than 10 to 15 active maintainers at any given time. I don't know how many hours others spend, but I can only devote about maybe 5 hours or less each week.