From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: allout update checkin questions Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:37:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0902181717h2b592a32wa825c2ca8e6af598@mail.gmail.com> <2cd46e7f0902191043s34a42f0eo617d7d039b97b52e@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235072495 32345 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2009 19:41:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Developers To: ken manheimer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 19 20:42:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LaEmd-0007xV-PJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:42:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LaElJ-0000je-Hw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:40:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LaEiS-0006pr-Pb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:37:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LaEiQ-0006p4-Td for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:37:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32898 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LaEiQ-0006ol-Ba for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:37:46 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:7831 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LaEiP-0005iQ-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:37:45 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqQEADVDnUlMCpTK/2dsb2JhbACBbtIkhA4Ggz0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,236,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="34103525" Original-Received: from 76-10-148-202.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.148.202]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 19 Feb 2009 14:37:44 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 3C4614B488; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:37:44 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <2cd46e7f0902191043s34a42f0eo617d7d039b97b52e@mail.gmail.com> (ken manheimer's message of "Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:43:27 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:109229 Archived-At: > sorry, i was unclear. i'm well acquainted with using CVS. Great! > What i'm clueless about are the emacs checkin and release protocols, > and i have completely failed to find guidance docs. There's nother written down. But you asked at the right place (sorry for not understanding at first). Development of "future code" always takes place on the CVS trunk. At times, the trunk is not open for random updates, this is the case right now for example because we're in pretest, so only bug-fix should be installed on the trunk. Later during the pretest (probably not much before the actual release), we will create a branch for the Emacs-23 release, at which point the trunk will be open again for non-bugfix changes. The intension of restricting the trunk to bugfixes and to try and focus people on fixing bugs. Note that we will likely switch over to Bzr around the time of the release or around the time when we create the Emacs-23 release branch. Stefan