Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Rob Browning <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:20:49 -0500
> 
> I can understand both the argument that these releases should be
> tested just as fully as any other release, and the alternative
> argument that they should be treated as much lighter-weight.
> 
> The latter argument usually claims that since the changes that go into
> these releases are much more controlled (and much smaller) than other
> releases, and since it's relatively easy to follow up a problematic
> minor release with a repair, then the minor releases won't normally
> need as much testing as the more major releases.

I agree that bugfix releases should need less testing, but still we
do have a pretest phase for them.