Re: Tutorials and worg like site for gnus.

[Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:02:53 +0300 Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr> wrote: 
>
> LT> However, in order to get people test stuff, changes have to be carefully
> LT> planned and rolled out. Mail are precious to most of us. And towards
> LT> this I'm asking this one thing:
>
> LT> How often and when is the gnus trunk pushed to the emacs bzr trunk? (I
> LT> know that it happens, albeit I have not found any specific information
> LT> on these stuff).
>
> LT> Knowing the answer to the above will help me to understand which trunk
> LT> to follow, because, you know, following two different moving targets is
> LT> already complicated and prone to errors.
>
> I would strongly advise you not to follow the Gnus or Emacs trunk if you
> can't stand to lose mail.  At least keep good backups if you do.
>
> Gnus gets synchronized into Emacs when Katsumi Yamaoka does it.  There's
> no schedule but he usually does it every day or two.
>

Thanks for the answer!

Now follows the million dollar question: Since every now and then gnus
trunk is pushed on emacs bzr trunk, shouldn't the version as reported by
gnus-version reflect this fact? I think it's kinda misleading. Opinions?