From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What holds the release (was: mouse-1-click-follows-link) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:12:10 +0900 Message-ID: References: <8564wi2ag7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17070.36649.525270.871681@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org 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 1118805167 14785 80.91.229.2 (15 Jun 2005 03:12:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:12:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 05:12:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiOJI-0008Qt-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:11:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiOOQ-0007vo-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiONO-0007YO-Ib for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:15:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiONA-0007QE-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:15:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiON9-0007PX-DY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.195] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DiOLS-0001bq-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:13:38 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 63so327136wri for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:12:10 -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=gCQFTlxCjU6ZU3eeX1xsyMm0njC1QjKOJkOFjvp9la2CiwgKHpRxHWEfkQn4HYvqjnbxTyibgsLX5ILdKqk/UrM0rGDgPHzgEANdWBtG43stsNc891f4Lh0JOJQb0Lnv3vIlxSnNcBqpVCODbvqXBkEqp1yj3F78Tkmc0n5YAgo= Original-Received: by 10.54.20.40 with SMTP id 40mr189931wrt; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.31 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero 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:38849 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38849 On 6/15/05, Juanma Barranquero wrote: > > What holds the release is the enormous amount of > > mundane work to be done before we consider ourselves ready for the > > next release ... > > and the relatively small number of people who get > > themselves busy working on those mundane issues. >=20 > Why so few developers involve themselves in "mundane" issues?=20 Actually, looking at FOR-RELEASE, there really don't seem to be that many mundane issues (that aren't already being handled) -- many of the items appear to be fairly tricky or require specific knowledge. -Miles --=20 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.