Re: Gnus development - Emacs 23 feature freeze, Emacs 22.3 pretest

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2008-08-22 13:49 +0200, Reiner Steib wrote:

> For the Gnus trunk, we have (at least) two options:
>
> (1) Start the feature freeze for No Gnus (to be release as Gnus 5.12)
>     now.  Do the bug fixing on the trunk.  Sync the trunk with Emacs
>     trunk (as we do now).  
>
>     Release Gnus 5.12.1 at same time as Emacs 23.1.

Shouldn't that be 5.12.0 or just 5.12, according to the scheme you
outlined in <v9tzius72j.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> ?

>     New features must be postponed until we start a new development
>     cycle.
>
> (2) Create a separate branch for Emacs 23.  Sync this branch with
>     Emacs trunk.  Only bug fixes should be committed to this branch.
>
>     Use the trunk for the next version of Gnus.  New features can be
>     added on the trunk immediately.

In case of (2), releasing 5.12 from the branch at the same time as Emacs
23.1 (or even earlier) would still be desirable.

Regards,
        Sven