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

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Sun, Aug 24 2008, Romain Francoise wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>
>> (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.
>
> If we want to keep our promise that the Gnus version bundled in
> Emacs is a (renumbered) stable release, this is the only viable
> option.  And I don't think we have any major new features waiting to
> be installed which would prevent us from implementing this plan.

I don't see why option (2) would contradict this promise.  Could you
elaborate, please?

> Also, creating a separate "renumbered Gnus 5.12 but not quite" line
> of development for the bundled Gnus doesn't sound very attractive.

I don't understand your concern.  The separate branch would be a
bug-fix branch (say v5-12) like we had/have v5-10 now.

>> (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.

Bye, Reiner.
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