From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John S. Yates, Jr." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What holds the release (was: mouse-1-click-follows-link) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:13:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8564wi2ag7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17070.36649.525270.871681@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118802468 9517 80.91.229.2 (15 Jun 2005 02:27:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 02:27:48 +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 04:27:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiNct-0005CD-NQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 04:27:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiNi1-0007iE-Bw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiNel-0005Zp-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:29:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiNef-0005Vx-SK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:29:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiNed-0005FP-P6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:29:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.127.202.64] (helo=sccrmhc13.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DiNMM-0007C6-PF; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.yates-sheets.org ([24.218.47.3]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <2005061502090201600t20qie>; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 02:09:02 +0000 Original-Received: from 10.1.1.4 ([10.1.1.4]) by mail.yates-sheets.org (WinRoute Pro 4.2.5) with SMTP; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:13:48 -0400 Original-Received: from dadold.yates-sheets.org ([10.1.1.12]) by [10.1.1.4] with SMTP (SpamPal v1.57) sender ; 14 Jun 2005 22:13:48 -0400 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 X-SpamPal: PASS WLIST EMAIL X-Wlist-Pattern: john@yates-sheets.org 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:38848 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38848 On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:54:35 +0200, you wrote: > It's nice having good docs, but good docs aren't any >good if they, and the features they document, stay on the CVS for >years and years. As a non-developer/lurker, who does NOT run a CVS pre-release emacs but simply a fairly stock 21.4, I suspect that the team that participates in this list has long since lost track of what the standard distribution feels like. Do you all not run some fairly recent snapshot with all the accumulated features and fixes for which the rest of the world has been waiting year? /john