From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:16:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wp55t0un.fsf@petton.fr> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505254681 7934 195.159.176.226 (12 Sep 2017 22:18:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 22:18:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nicolas@petton.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 13 00:17:53 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1drtVB-0001iO-7W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:17:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38946 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drtVF-00054Z-Ie for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:17:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drtUG-0004k4-4P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drtUF-0008BR-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:16:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51858) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drtU9-00082M-Ly; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1drtU9-00022A-BW; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:16:49 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:05:29 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218162 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. ]]] > Does a vulnerability that has been there since that long really deserve > such a rushed release? Any vulnerability that doesn't involve a mistake by the user calls for a quick fix. How long the bug has existed does not change anything. > I mean, you could have gone through the classic release procedure with > tags/branches etc and maybe delay the release for 2-3 days. Would it really > have changed something in that case? That is not an real reason for delay. There is nothing sacred about the usual release procedure. We use it under normal circumstances because under normal circumstances it's useful: it helps us avoid errors. It helps us avoid errors because a normal release includes lots of changes. This situation is not like that, so there was no need for that procedure. -- 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.