From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail mbox-format branch Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:41:39 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <41406C46.6050505@pajato.com> <01c4969e$Blat.v2.2.2$d48c9a40@zahav.net.il> <20040909221947.GB11694@fencepost> <01c49717$Blat.v2.2.2$402ab840@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094812961 24102 80.91.224.253 (10 Sep 2004 10:42:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:42:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pmr@pajato.com, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 12:42:32 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 1C5irP-0000FR-00 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:42:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5iwm-0007O2-Pp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:48:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5iw5-00073H-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5iw3-00072F-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:47:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5iw2-000725-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:47:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C5iqb-0000nh-51 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 88973 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2004 10:41:40 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 10 Sep 2004 10:41:40 -0000 Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:38:50 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:26954 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26954 Miles Bader writes: > "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> Experience shows that 21.4 will most probably be followed by a bugfix >> release 21.5, a month or two after 21.4 is out; if that happens, we >> cannot move 22.1 into a pretest before the bugfix release is out. >> Since we cannot know whether 21.4 will need a bugfix release, we will >> wait at least a month or so before we decide, which again doesn't >> allow 22.1 to start a pretest immediately. > > What's wrong with using a branch for bugfixes in 21.4? I don't know if Eli argued against branching for 21.4 bug fixes. But I think the point was that we should not run two pre-tests (21.5 and 22.1) at the same time. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk