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Re: Rmail mbox-format branch
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Rmail mbox-format branch |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:42:26 +0300 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:39:37 +0200
>
> It will probably take a month or two for the emacs developers
> to fix bugs in the unicode branch before starting pretest on 22.1 --
>
> in the meantime, we can run a pretest for 21.5 bug-fix release if
> necessary.
Okay, but that means we cannot ``immediately'' start pretesting 22.1.
> > Experience also shows that a pretest of a major new release takes
> > several months. 21.1 took more than 6 months, IIRC, and it was used
> > by more people before the pretest than the Unicode branch is now.
>
> 21.1 was developed within a "closed group". 21.4 has been developed
> in a wide open forum since day 1, and I think that CVS emacs is used
> by MANY users everyday already -- and as such has got more pre-testing
> already than 21.1 ever got!
>
> So I'm pretty optimistic re. the length of the 21.4 pretest.
I was talking about the length of the pretest of 22.1, not of 21.4.
The unicode branch is developed by a small group as well, I think it's
even smaller than the one who used 21.1 during its development.
> But if we merge the rmail/mbox branch to trunk now, I'm much less
> optimistic :-(
I don't understand why. Most Emacs suers don't use RMAIL anyway, so
please explain the reasons for your pessimism.
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, (continued)
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Stefan, 2004/09/09
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/09/09
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Miles Bader, 2004/09/09
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Kim F. Storm, 2004/09/10
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/09/10
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Miles Bader, 2004/09/10
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Kim F. Storm, 2004/09/10
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/09/10
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/09/10
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Kim F. Storm, 2004/09/10
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Kim F. Storm, 2004/09/10
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/09/10
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Kim F. Storm, 2004/09/11
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Richard Stallman, 2004/09/11
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/09/11
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Kim F. Storm, 2004/09/11
- Re: Rmail mbox-format branch, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/09/10
- Proof-reading manuals (was Re: Rmail mbox-format branch), Kim F. Storm, 2004/09/11
- Re: Proof-reading manuals (was Re: Rmail mbox-format branch), Luc Teirlinck, 2004/09/14
- Re: Proof-reading manuals (was Re: Rmail mbox-format branch), Richard Stallman, 2004/09/16