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

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> 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.
>
>     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.

(1) would mean we'd have to hold back any non-bugfix patches until Emacs
23.1 is released. I don't know what the usual time between Emacs feature
freeze and release is, but I guess it's at least a few months. So I'd
say creating another branch, i.e. option (2), is reasonable.

-David