From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New sync'd branch Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:29:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <19091.4935.369973.835792@totara.tehura.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251192619 3832 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 09:30:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 25 11:30:11 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 1MfsLz-0002Lm-Dg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:30:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51872 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfsLy-0006Ax-7b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:30:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfsLp-00066a-2M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfsLj-0005vO-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:29:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44301 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfsLi-0005uh-FJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from proxy3.bredband.net ([195.54.101.73]:52040) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfsLi-0005bt-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from iph2.telenor.se (195.54.127.133) by proxy3.bredband.net (7.3.140.3) id 49F597CD0303C4E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:29:52 +0200 X-SMTPAUTH-B2: X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvFtALpLk0pT44qWPGdsb2JhbACafQEBAQE3ujmEGgU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,271,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="37922166" Original-Received: from ua-83-227-138-150.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO exodia) ([83.227.138.150]) by iph2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 25 Aug 2009 11:29:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (DIR-655.lan [192.168.200.113]) (authenticated bits=0) by exodia (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7P9TaR2023606 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:29:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: <19091.4935.369973.835792@totara.tehura.co.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:25:11 +1200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (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:114578 Archived-At: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts) writes: >> So I believe we should create a new branch EMACS_23 which will play the >> role currently played by the trunk, so the trunk can now be open to more >> experimental development (bidi, cpp->autoconf conversion, lexbind, ...), >> targetted for Emacs-24. > > This seems contrary to earlier belief that branching well before a release > results in all energy being diverted away from the release. > My =A40.2C: Developer energy is not a resource you can divert at will att random tasks. My energy level depends on how interesting I find the tasks at hand. I often wish otherwise. Hopefully everyone can work at tasks that interests them, and we can both have releases and a living far-future branch. --=20 Joakim Verona