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Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.]
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:48:01 +0200 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Rob Browning <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:15:06 -0500
>
> So the presumption was that there won't be more than about 50 bugfixes
> before the next "primary release".
Yes.
In my experience, most pretest versions started from .80, with some
major ones beginning at .70.
> To a large extent how many bugfix releases we could make in a year or
> so will depend on how the developers want to handle the "bugfix only"
> testing process. Will it be the same process as for a "bigger"
> release, or can it be handled differently since the changes allowed
> are much more restricted?
I don't think it matters: in any case, it takes a non-trivial amount
of time to run a pretest.
One related problem is that AFAIK we have no clear criteria for when a
version, be it bugfix or major, is ready for a release.
> (In Debian, we normally release a new package as soon as we have a
> fix, it goes to unstable, and then it waits there for a time. If
> "nothing goes wrong" with it or anything it depends on during that
> time, then that package migrates to testing for eventual inclusion in
> our next stable release.)
I think Emacs is such a large package that it doesn't make sense to
have a new version more than once in a month or two. But that, too,
was never discussed nor codified since we never could end a pretest as
soon as that. Perhaps we should delay this discussion until we get to
such a situation for the first time.
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], (continued)
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], Jérôme Marant, 2004/09/30
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], Rob Browning, 2004/09/30
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], Robert J. Chassell, 2004/09/30
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], Jérôme Marant, 2004/09/30
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], Kim F. Storm, 2004/09/30
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], Eli Zaretskii, 2004/09/30
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], Rob Browning, 2004/09/30
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.],
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- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], Jérôme Marant, 2004/09/30
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], Stefan Monnier, 2004/09/30
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], Eli Zaretskii, 2004/09/30
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], Stefan Monnier, 2004/09/30
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], Andreas Schwab, 2004/09/30
- Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.], Richard Stallman, 2004/09/30
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