Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never).

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>>      I still think this is a bad idea -- it cannot be done without 
>> potentially
>>      destabilizing the trunk which is currently in a very stable state, and
>>      thus in a pretty unique state of "readiness for release".
>>  
>>  We could urge all the pretesters to try out the unicode branch now.
>>  That way we would get a picture of how far it is from readiness.

> But the unicode branch is not synchronized with the trunk, so it wouldn't
> really tell us anything.

I'm gradually synchronizing unicode branch with the trunk by
the method Stephen taught me (i.e. moving
emacs-unicode-2-base tag), but the progress is slow.

> Even Handa-san says he is in favour of not merging unicode before we
> have made a major release from trunk.

Yes, but, what do you mean by "major release"?  I thought
releasing from the trunk with the version number 21.5 (or
21.4) is a "minor release" because it changes only the minor
version.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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