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Re: Extensive changes during pretest
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: Extensive changes during pretest |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:06:06 -0800 |
Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Why are so many changes being checked-in so late in the pretest? They
> > don't seem to be bugfixes to me (see below).
> >
> > Would the head maintainers please state clear guidelines on what
> > should and what should not be installed at this time? In the absence
> > of a formal procedure for reviewing patches before they are committed
> > and/or for posting them after the commit, I think it's imperative we
> > have clear and agreed-upon guidelines.
>
> We're still working out how the release process is going to be
> handled.
>
> In the meantime, while I'm aware that maintainers such as Michael
> McNamara (for verilog) and Alan Mackenzie (for CC mode) have
> significant leeway for checkins affecting their parts of the code, Eli
> is right: Emacs 22.2 is already in pretest, so such changes shouldn't
> be made to the branch at this point in time. At the very least,
> please inform emacs-devel to make sure it doesn't clash with the
> pretest.
>
> For small safe bug fixes, do continue sending them directly into the
> branch, as we're currently doing, for the moment.
>
> New features should be going into the trunk; if you want to backport
> it to Emacs 22, please wait till after 22.2 is released and propose
> the backport on emacs-devel.
Why not have the up to date checkin policy for each branch in
FOR-RELEASE?
That way there's no ambiguity what is going on, and there's a single
place to check what it TRTD. A message on the mailing list is very easy
to miss...
- Extensive changes during pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/02/23
- Re: Extensive changes during pretest, Chong Yidong, 2008/02/23
- Re: Extensive changes during pretest, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/23
- Re: Extensive changes during pretest, Glenn Morris, 2008/02/23
- Re: Extensive changes during pretest, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/02/23
- Re: Extensive changes during pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/02/23
- Re: Extensive changes during pretest, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/02/24
- Re: Extensive changes during pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/02/24
- Re: Extensive changes during pretest, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/02/24
- Re: Extensive changes during pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/02/24
- Re: Extensive changes during pretest, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/02/24