Re: Feature freeze postphoned to end-July

[Chong Yidong]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 10 2008, Chong Yidong wrote:
>
>> We originally planned to begin the feature freeze at the end of June.
>> For various reasons, however, three of the important features slated for
>> Emacs 23 (ECB, window grouping, and Emacs.app) won't be ready by then.
>>
>> Therefore, we're postphoning the feature freeze to the end of July.
>> We'll supply a more precise date soon.
>
> I wonder what the feature freeze means for Gnus.  Is it a freeze only
> for Emacs core functionality?  Is adding limited features (to Gnus)
> still okay?  Could you please clarify?

Gnus is a bit of a corner case.  Tentatively, I think we could follow a
similar procedure to what we did during the Emacs 22 release cycle,
i.e. have Emacs CVS track the Gnus stable branch.  As we get closer in
the cycle, we'll have a harder freeze.

Could you tell me what the status of Gnus development currently is, and
these limited features you plan to implement are?