From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:31:03 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1096291271.415813c757a26@imp6-q.free.fr> <20040927134714.GA20012@fencepost> <87hdphx91c.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87655wswkv.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <01c4a6f8$Blat.v2.2.2$f6ef61c0@zahav.net.il> <87ekkjiy9x.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096565523 15286 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 17:32:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:32:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , jmarant@free.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 19:31:52 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CD4mV-0006lH-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:31:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD4su-00065P-D2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:38:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD4sQ-0005tB-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD4sP-0005sr-M9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD4sP-0005sh-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CD4lo-0005uy-Uj; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC85A8282AF; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:31:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439344AC659; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:31:04 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 804418CA23; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:31:03 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Rob Browning In-Reply-To: <87ekkjiy9x.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:15:06 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=0, requis 5) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27730 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27730 >> The way it worked until now was that if a decision was made to release >> the version X.N from a branch, the version number on the trunk was >> bumped up to X.N+1.50. This involves running "M-x set-version RET" >> from admin.el. > So the presumption was that there won't be more than about 50 bugfixes > before the next "primary release". No, the .50 is used for all the "versions" until the first pretest. The pretests then start at .90, then .91, .92, ... and can go to .9999999999999999997, ... so we have a large enough pool of pretest version numbers. Stefan