From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What holds the release (was: mouse-1-click-follows-link) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:40:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8564wi2ag7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17070.36649.525270.871681@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: Juanma Barranquero NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118821571 17589 80.91.229.2 (15 Jun 2005 07:46:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:46:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 09:46:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiSaS-00082O-SU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:45:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiSfd-0004D0-9M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:50:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiSYD-0002FZ-OM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiSYA-0002EQ-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiSY5-00028a-3s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:42:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.194] (helo=nproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DiSWm-0000P0-20 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:41:36 -0400 Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so155370nfe for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:40:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=S2jNJn6zFU36vuaUommsdaQikKRJc5B9L7mgvy0TiEQy9b6C9UBjI9eGCi2HhSZj8hmIIRgMtV3OXd9WKMgtIQtQSuWmURvV5VdlyAWESvn5jcqZLEOKbX8dRgYpEVT+0oPgcOViAqaqsWJVCmStZuQrkCQkG4dyB6COORjgT2I= Original-Received: by 10.48.249.6 with SMTP id w6mr112448nfh; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.250.5 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38863 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38863 > I'd prefer yearly releases of insuperable quality ;-) Yeah, I do, too. Any idea how can we do that? :-) > I think it's plain foolish to release a version that is known to be > flawed. It hurts users and it wastes valuable resources that are at a > premium on preparing tarballs that would need to be replaced shortly. >>From where I stand, it seems like you are saying that a release is either perfect, or deeply flawed. That's a pretty strong definition of "flawed". > But that's me. Sure. We're just talking, and venting out a little... :) --=20 /L/e/k/t/u