From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Gran Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user,gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guile release planning Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:19:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <742706.41904.qm@web37908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <49dd78620811101723m6b014589ua01037d5ea3f17b9@mail.gmail.com> <552701.83918.qm@web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <49dd78620811151503v43a809ep2715d98142f8da83@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226791174 12375 80.91.229.12 (15 Nov 2008 23:19:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:19:34 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel , guile-user Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 16 00:20:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L1URO-0000yy-Ae for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:20:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L1UQF-0001Pl-Rk for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:19:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L1UQ2-0001PK-4M for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L1UQ0-0001Ov-NB for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:19:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48895 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L1UQ0-0001Os-Hl for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:19:08 -0500 Original-Received: from web37908.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.91.170]:37983) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1UQ0-0000fT-Ap for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:19:08 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 42204 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Nov 2008 23:19:06 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=BYEx8KiTjtcH9h9iuoOgJWBd+fh5tkR1zcaSVg3MZSTX7fe3AXtV4YiqBCC8ndVbMtf+B0JvCPWyvFi5uHmQCXxIj0prfu/FFSFE5PuR2zodEMwnCajTiXuEIuGH2Cu0WDQNBllSt1UAH6QP3k9UYF8JCm9w4seE9hjAqQs5d2Q=; X-YMail-OSG: x24BQG8VM1lNmlxeyISsLEgbyTe5eyTPbPXLhX3lPmBuQgcybvgXDyk82NlN4B9Ga1eIdqy.cmQjhj7aQAsFINQ_fYX9EJtsvfSqYU3WzsJmkrrf9.qWme2H2sfeoQm1L.CHfSW68jbDq9.paJPXJR3yCzmJaSx6P99KG5uXk8Sp.aQNSwzFlXny3A-- Original-Received: from [69.227.178.150] by web37908.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:19:06 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1155.29 YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:6919 gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7846 Archived-At: > From: Neil Jerram > Hi Mike, thanks for your response. > > I would propose, then, that we clearly flag (on the mailing list) an > API change at the time when the relevant commit is made to the > repository, and make sure that some minimum period of time elapses > before the subsequent release. I would hope that you could then work > on the basis of the commit, without needing a formal pre-release. > (Any kind of release takes a bit of time, and pre-releases might > confuse the overall release picture.) > > Would that work? Works for me.