From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 21.4 not tagged in CVS Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:48:57 +0000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108220016 13781 80.91.229.2 (12 Feb 2005 14:53:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 12 15:53:35 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Czyd2-0004Ck-4X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:52:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzysB-0005Yo-Eh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:07:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzypQ-0004rp-SC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzypL-0004op-BS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:04:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzypJ-0004ng-G5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:04:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1Czya8-0002uG-H2; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:49:12 -0500 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1CEnBnF012822; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:49:11 GMT Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A60DDD37; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:49:10 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:00:58 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33296 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33296 David Kastrup writes: > Nobody expected it. It was a special situation that arose. I don't think that is a good excuse to ignore CVS and make an ad-hoc release that is not labelled, nor as far as I can see not even checked in to CVS. > The way Richard has described it, I don't think that we can at all > rule out that a similar situation might happen again. Which is why it is even more of a concern that this release was so ad-hoc. There is a danger now that if it happens again, we will lose the movemail patches. > The solution would seem to have one branch where critical fixes are > applied to regardless of whether a release is anticipated. EMACS_21_1_RC was supposed to be such a branch.