From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62313 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gdt@work.lexort.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: A new Gnus 5.10 release... Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:22:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142882633 31852 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2006 19:23:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10840@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Mar 20 20:23:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FLPye-0007Pk-RH for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:23:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FLPyW-0003Qz-00; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:23:32 -0600 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FLPy4-0003Qu-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:23:04 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FLPy3-0003tB-6T for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:23:04 -0600 Original-Received: from linuxpal.mit.edu ([18.62.1.14]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FLPxz-0004Sl-00 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:23:00 +0100 Original-Received: by linuxpal.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 9545) id 2DBDA14; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:22:59 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:13:38 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62313 Archived-At: Unless people think that (a)-(d) _must_ be added to v5-10 _before_ the release, I'd suggest to do another release quite soon after (a)-(d) have been merged into v5-10. At the same time we might get more feedback and bug reports from people who didn't use any non-released version (i.e. anything newer than 5.10.6) yet, i.e. I expect that these won't be the only changes. (I'm new to the list, and just started using gnus with nnimap for mail - I'm a longtime gnus user for reading mailinglists from mh folders.) When I started using nnimap I had trouble (with the code in emacs 21.3), and went to find more updated code, and wondered if gnus was dead given the release dates and the apparent broken gatewaying to news://news.gnus.org/gnus.ding I quickly figured out that CVS is where one should go. I think having a stable release - without trying to make changes just before the release is a good idea. There's a big tendency, quite understandable, to push features in just before a stable release, but I think this should be avoided as not conducive to stability. Once a stable release is out, merging stuff (that might cause trouble) and having another release in a month or so would get those features out, and not jeopardize the stability of the just-about-to-happen stable release. -- Greg Troxel