Re: Pretest and branch on Friday June 19

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

  > Following discussion with Stefan, I plan to make the next pretest,
  > 23.0.95, next Friday (June 19).  At that time, I will also cut the
  > EMACS_23_BASE branch and open the trunk for development.  If we need a
  > 23.0.96 pretest, it will be made from the branch.
  > 
  > I'm not certain what version number to assign the trunk after branching.
  > I'm inclined to use 23.1.50, which assumes we'll use the trunk for
  > developing 23.2.  Maybe this is optimistic; as many will recall, what
  > ended up as Emacs 22 was originally slated for 21.3.  Opinions welcome.

Shouldn't the numbering depend on the plan for the release after 23.1?
Is lexical binding going to be added?  (or some similar major feature)?
Or just incremental work? (bug fixing/adding packages/etc)?

(Well, actually the numbering is much less important than the plan... )