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Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:

> This is unfortunate.  Now people (like me) used to doing updates
> against the CVS head or, I guess, picking up snapshots, get something
> unstable that they're not expecting and they can't pick up bug fixes
> to Gnus 5.8.  It also screws me merging stuff for Emacs 21.

All other CVS based projects I know of either have HEAD as the front
of the development branch, or are planning to do so in the future
because having HEAD be the stable branch causes too many problems.

There are no excuse for picking up software with CVS and expecting
stable code.

> Gnus 5.8 should have been stabilized and a proper release made before
> this.  

Aren't all the 5.8.7 point releases stable?

> It should not have XEmacs-specific files on it, or anything for which
> we don't have assignments.

I thought Lars always required assignments for Gnus code.