From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Stable releases Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:16:12 -0800 Message-ID: <87k61ovtmr.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> References: <87bqn5n48n.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <8764dai81b.fsf@laas.fr> <871wnyf25z.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87mz6kea8c.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 1164179795 23331 80.91.229.2 (22 Nov 2006 07:16:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:16:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Development Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 08:16:31 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 1GmmLE-0007Bs-Tk for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:16:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmmLE-0003KJ-AP for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:16:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmmL9-0003I1-Ow for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:16:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmmL8-0003G0-8m for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:16:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmmL8-0003Fk-4f for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:16:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [70.85.129.156] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GmmL7-0005mq-QF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:16:14 -0500 Original-Received: from omen.defaultvalue.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A1C90E86; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:16:12 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from raven.defaultvalue.org (raven.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by omen.defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AFE2340A9; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:16:12 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by raven.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6B7EF355193; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:16:12 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Neil Jerram In-Reply-To: <87mz6kea8c.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:54:59 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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:6235 Archived-At: Neil Jerram writes: > I think we probably have taken a wrong turn, because I don't think > the 1.8.x that we are on the verge of producing can be described any > more as a "stable" series. Surely the common connotations of > "stable" are that the API is as unchanging as possible, and that the > code is only changed in order to fix non-trivial bugs? I think I'd be in favor of fixing trivial bugs too, as long as the fixes are extremely unlikely to cause any other trouble, but other than that I agree. > Therefore, my feeling now is that we should revert to traditional > "stable" handling for 1.8.x. This would mean not merging > enhancements from HEAD such as my debugging stuff and Ludovic's text > collation work. It would also mean that Rob's comments about > limited testing requirement hold. > > As far as releasing exciting new stuff is concerned, I suggest we > just make unstable 1.9.x releases every now and then. We should > flag these very clearly as unstable, and not really worry at all > about testing them. You have fairly accurately summarized the way I would prefer to handle things, but it hasn't been completely clear to me that that's what everyone else wants. In general I would prefer to be very conservative with the stable series, and just plan to create a new stable series as often as needed. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel