From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Move to a cadence release model? Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:20:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447179676 28061 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2015 18:21:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 19:21:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDXM-0005Zb-Ii for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:20:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34760 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDXH-00048P-6B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:20:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37333) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDWm-00046G-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:20:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDWl-0003x1-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:20:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38894) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDWc-0003rk-7G; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:20:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDWb-00077I-Go; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:20:09 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Yates on Tue, 10 Nov 2015 08:57:07 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:193908 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I have been impressed with open source projects that have made the change. > I am now employed at Mathworks which ships mission critical software to > very large enterprise customers on a 6 month cadence. We don't consider Emacs an "open source" project, but that doesn't mean we can't think about this proposal. However, you haven't said what it means. Can you please spell out in concrete terms what you have in mind? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.