From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24841 invoked by alias); 2 Dec 2016 12:32:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 40064 Received: (qmail 4363 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2016 12:32:36 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(140.77.13.17):SA:0(0.0/5.0):. Processed in 1.492489 secs); 02 Dec 2016 12:32:36 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: vincent@vinc17.net X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at vinc17.net does not designate permitted sender hosts) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:25:02 +0100 From: Vincent Lefevre To: zsh-workers@zsh.org Subject: Re: Plans for 5.3? Message-ID: <20161202122501.GA13061@cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-workers@zsh.org References: <1480543214.13017.63.camel@gladbachcity.de> <161130155612.ZM26823@torch.brasslantern.com> <20161201022815.GZ5130@sym.noone.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20161201022815.GZ5130@sym.noone.org> X-Mailer-Info: https://www.vinc17.net/mutt/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1-6878-vl-r94147 (2016-11-29) Hi, On 2016-12-01 03:28:16 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 03:56:12PM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote: > > Peter has subsequently said that he wants 5.3 to be out before > > Christmas. > > That's actually necessary to get 5.3 into the next Debian Stable > release. Yes, an unpatched 5.2 is too buggy (in particular, I got crashes). On my Debian machines, I had to rebuild zsh with 5 local patches. > > We've called a moritorium on further optimizations (we got a lot > > of those in the last few weeks that we weren't really expecting). > > > > So I would expect 5.3 to be out in time for January. > > Sounds as if this will become a close one. Some more details on the > timeline: > > Debian's freeze for new upstream releases for the next Stable release > is on 5th of January 2017. This means that I need to upload 5.3 to > Debian Unstable latest on 24th of December to have chance to get it > transitioned from "Unstable" to "Testing" before 5th of January. > > Details on the timeline at > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/11/msg00002.html > > This though only works if there's no so called release-critical bug > found in the package (which would prevent the transitioning), hence > the earlier, the better, so that potential bugs can be fixed in time > before Christmas. > > If I can upload 5.3 only just in time on Christmas eve, the > transition will become a little bit like a lottery. In the mean time, perhaps there could be a snapshot (I would have actually hoped an alpha or beta release) in experimental, in case bugs would be detected. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)