From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Stable branch will freeze. Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:39:39 -0800 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87vgbywwxp.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87bsdpobcr.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87bsdpjrww.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> Reply-To: ttn@glug.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016239562 1999 127.0.0.1 (16 Mar 2002 00:46:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 00:46:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16m2Kf-0000W2-00 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 01:46:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16m2Jn-0007wa-00; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:45:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ca-crlsbd-u3-c5c-122.crlsca.adelphia.net ([68.64.59.122] helo=giblet) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16m2HM-0007mq-00 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:42:36 -0500 Original-Received: from ttn by giblet with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16m2EV-00019C-00; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:39:39 -0800 Original-To: mvo@zagadka.ping.de In-Reply-To: <87bsdpjrww.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (message from Marius Vollmer on 16 Mar 2002 01:08:15 +0100) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:82 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:82 From: Marius Vollmer Date: 16 Mar 2002 01:08:15 +0100 For me, it was a technical decision that should clarify the status of the 1.6 branch and help it to fulfill its intended purpose. it is the inputs to the decision that clarify the decision. Maybe we should have discussed it first, but I knew from the way the 1.6 branch has developed that we would need to be really strict about the freeze if it should have a chance of succeeding. So I just went ahead and demonstrated my willingness to be strict by just announcing that the branch is now frozen, period. strictness/rigor/etc is fine if you understand that being strict means holding yourself to some principle. if the principle is not expressed no one even knows you're being strict, and those who may benefit from the presumably well-chosen principle, benefit by chance only. What did you deduce from my response? that you have less gray hairs than me, and i should go hack emacs for rms (indentation/filling for variable width fonts -- something i would never deign to impugn my personal emacs w/, btw), now. happy hacking, thi _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel