Re: ognus

[Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "ZSH" == ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

 ZSH> I tagged it (pre-ognus-point instead), moved those files,
 ZSH> truncated ChangeLog, set revision to 6.0, added the wish list
 ZSH> (todo file).  This means beyond the point the codes are
 ZSH> UNSTABLE.

This is unfortunate.  Now people (like me) used to doing updates
against the CVS head or, I guess, picking up snapshots, get something
unstable that they're not expecting and they can't pick up bug fixes
to Gnus 5.8.  It also screws me merging stuff for Emacs 21.

Gnus 5.8 should have been stabilized and a proper release made before
this.  (I know that probably requires Lars to start doing maintenance
again unless someone else gets control at the distribution machine or
we can arrange to move things and advertise the fact.)  Development
hacking could have happened on a branch.

Changing RCS version numbers in the repository is just the wrong thing
to do.

 ZSH> I didn't fork a branch because there is a stable branch
 ZSH> emacs21-branch (though some XEmacs files are not in it.)

That is not a stable branch.  It's for my convenience importing into
Emacs, and the code may not even work, particularly outside Emacs 21.
It should not have XEmacs-specific files on it, or anything for which
we don't have assignments.  Apart from the fact that it needs more
merging, which I'll have to abandon for the moment, it's already
somewhat forked and will get worse soon unless we get assignments for
stuff installed without them.