From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67270 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus development - Emacs 23 feature freeze, Emacs 22.3 pretest Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:49:28 +0200 Message-ID: <87bpzlm4mv.fsf@randomsample.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 1219420197 10450 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2008 15:49:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:49:57 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15721@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Aug 22 17:50:50 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 1KWYuN-0001TN-QY for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:50:40 +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 1KWYtM-0000zV-5k; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:49:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KWYtK-0000zC-U0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:49:34 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KWYtH-0005Vy-OP for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:49:34 -0500 Original-Received: from m61s02.vlinux.de ([83.151.21.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KWYtI-0001lf-00 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:49:32 +0200 Original-Received: from dslc-082-082-178-147.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.82.178.147] helo=honk) by m61s02.vlinux.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KWYtY-0001aq-RY for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:49:49 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never 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/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2.90 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67270 Archived-At: Reiner Steib 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