From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Stable releases Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:04:16 +0100 Organization: LAAS-CNRS Message-ID: <8764dai81b.fsf@laas.fr> References: <87bqn5n48n.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164028293 26391 80.91.229.2 (20 Nov 2006 13:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Development Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 20 14:11:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gm8va-0008IO-CU for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:11:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gm8vZ-0001a7-MM for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:11:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gm8oz-000456-8G for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:04:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gm8ov-000429-6U for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:04:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gm8ou-00041t-Q6 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.93.0.15] (helo=laas.laas.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1Gm8ou-000612-98 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:04:20 -0500 Original-Received: from messiaen.laas.fr (messiaen [IPv6:2001:660:6602:0:230:65ff:fed4:9d20]) by laas.laas.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAKD4Hdn021374; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:04:17 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by messiaen.laas.fr (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:04:16 +0100 Original-To: Neil Jerram X-URL: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 30 Brumaire an 215 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEB1F5364 X-PGP-Key: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu Mail-Followup-To: Neil Jerram , Guile Development In-Reply-To: <87bqn5n48n.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:38:16 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -0.001 () NO_RELAYS X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang at CNRS-LAAS on IPv6:2001:660:6602::2 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6224 Archived-At: Hi, Neil Jerram writes: > I've been wondering whether we could make stable releases on a more > predictable basis than we have done in the past. I'm all in favor of what you propose, but... > (a) leaving a short while - say 2-3 days - after committing a fix, > just in case of a glaring mistake that would be picked up by > another developer building I believe 2-3 days is a bit too short, given the current average response time on this mailing list. :-) So I'd rather say one week. And also it'd be nice if the release maker could send a reminder one week before making the release so that people have an incentive to update their trees and test. Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel