From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What holds the release (was: mouse-1-click-follows-link) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:35:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8564wi2ag7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17070.36649.525270.871681@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118806251 16916 80.91.229.2 (15 Jun 2005 03:30:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:30:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 05:30:50 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiObs-0001c8-1x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:30:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiOh0-0004G0-9w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:35:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiOgc-00049k-Jt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:35:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiOga-000490-Rq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:35:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiOga-00048j-GN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:35:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DiOhe-000361-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:36:34 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-250-119.inter.net.il [83.130.250.119]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id EPN73039 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 06:35:04 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-reply-to: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:54:35 +0200) 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:38852 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38852 > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:54:35 +0200 > From: Juanma Barranquero > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I, for one, would much prefer yearly releases of medium-high > quality than fourth-year releases of insuperable quality. I'd prefer yearly releases of insuperable quality ;-) > YMMV. It does. > Last time we discusses that I brought the example of Subversion (and > was said it was a much smaller project :). I know. But they do > something which I find quite interesting: they plan a release, and > they try hard to stick to the date, even if they *know* it won't be > perfect. They're not afraid of getting 1.2.0 out even if they know > about non-critical bugs; 1.2.1 will follow in a few weeks. I think > this generates good karma. I think it's plain foolish to release a version that is known to be flawed. It hurts users and it wastes valuable resources that are at a premium on preparing tarballs that would need to be replaced shortly. But that's me.