From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67273 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Joachim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus development - Emacs 23 feature freeze, Emacs 22.3 pretest Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:12:53 +0200 Message-ID: <878wupc9kq.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87wsi91d8d.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219421627 16007 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2008 16:13:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:13:47 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15724@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Aug 22 18:14:40 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KWZHY-0002D0-Fy for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:14:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KWZGW-0001Fk-1F; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:13:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KWZGV-0001Fb-2G for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:13:31 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KWZGR-0004lk-5A for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:13:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KWZGR-0002Qf-00 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:13:28 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2008 16:12:55 -0000 Original-Received: from p54867DD7.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO debian) [84.134.125.215] by mail.gmx.net (mp014) with SMTP; 22 Aug 2008 18:12:55 +0200 X-Authenticated: #28250155 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18mZhwdUpQmDr2F/UZBZMXyqiWIqI8qXmlgQqG/1e zQwNlYpVFH865H Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87wsi91d8d.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:49:22 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.64 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67273 Archived-At: 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 ? > 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