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RE: Periodical releases
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Periodical releases |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Jan 2012 07:34:11 -0800 |
> >> Don't wait until "perfection" and release trunk more often
> >> with bug releases if needed.
> >
> > No, no, no, please. Just the opposite.
> > Bake Emacs _more_ fully before releasing it.
> >
> > Get it right. Document it well. Mention all user-visible
> > changes in NEWS. Fix outstanding bugs.
> >
> > Richard had exactly the right approach to releasing Emacs, IMO. He
> > was attacked by some because they felt the release cycle was too
> > short. I, for one, appreciated his thoroughness and insistence on
> > high quality.
>
> Is it not possible to have thorougness and high quality with more
> frequent releases of smaller scope? Maybe the problem (if
> there is one) is that trunk is allowed to drift too far from a
> releasable state. I'm just saying.
Not when there are large changes made for significant features (new or old).
Consider, for Emacs 24, (1) the myriad user-visible effects of radically
changing the `display-buffer'/window behavior, and (2) the significant
development effort related to bidi (non-trivial, takes time to implement and
test).
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- Re: Periodical releases, Jambunathan K, 2012/01/05
- Re: Periodical releases, Leo, 2012/01/05
- Re: Periodical releases, Jambunathan K, 2012/01/05
- Re: Periodical releases, Carsten Mattner, 2012/01/05
- Re: Periodical releases, Eric Schulte, 2012/01/05
- Re: Periodical releases, Carsten Mattner, 2012/01/05
- Re: Periodical releases, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/05
- Re: Periodical releases, Dave Abrahams, 2012/01/05
- RE: Periodical releases,
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