From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67745 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus development - Emacs 23 feature freeze, Emacs 22.3 pretest Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:34:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87prlc5z1c.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <87wsi91d8d.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87tzdaw4vv.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225744520 26763 80.91.229.12 (3 Nov 2008 20:35:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:35:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Romain Francoise Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16196@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Nov 03 21:36:21 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Kx69f-0003ZD-L6 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:36:08 +0100 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 1Kx68P-0007Mc-OB; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:34:49 -0600 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 1Kx68O-0007MM-HP for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:34:48 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kx68L-0003ZI-Jy for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:34:48 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Kx68U-0000E3-00 for ; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:34:54 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.175]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mA3KYh7T004057; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:34:43 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A75F3133EB; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:34:43 +0100 (CET) X-Face: mtjf/D:es1T0wHO:&CJ'ZXe"l;3C--rw\z!{`eFwL){|]RpI+4{u25L=5C /0>KuGeTsk<~<&NE-AKV1560e!+RJeyWmSskkrJm?[vUV#66{T_m|Ae<||Ku#Mk5`y&O`n~z2;n8eP J5#2h@2eQgV@E70IY_0WlEx!"&giy{+\%h1LJox$zv@/l%ZmU4^tZA>xQpnkUBVC5.jpg#0'(+2?Rs )NAr:>3<=WxHE$ktbLysDIM5TbmHu*3, ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87tzdaw4vv.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com> (Romain Francoise's message of "Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:10:44 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-CTc-dcc1-Metrics: poseidon 1030; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67745 Archived-At: On Sun, Aug 24 2008, Romain Francoise wrote: > Reiner Steib 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/