Re: patch vs. overwrite in bzr

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:

> Bastien <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> I may have replied elsewhere.  The way I see it, Org should be taken out
>>> of `trunk' and instead the Emacs release should include a set of ELPA
>>> packages (including Org).
>>
>> IMHO this move would just send a signal to Emacs devs "do not try to 
>> fix this, it's just an ELPA package" -- which does not so good to me.
>
> I share the same fear that a package residing in the elpa branch could
> be regarded as second class citizen. OTOH, being an elpa package would
> require from us (external) package maintainers shorter freeze windows,
> before a new Emacs release is shipped. New Tramp features are stalled
> from being synced since June. A similar freeze period was before
> releasing Emacs 23.
>
> And in the Emacs 22 case, the freeze was for about 3 years, if I'm not
> totally wrong. But maybe I'm just a too pedantic German, following every
> freeze policy ...
I never understood why Emacs have not a developing branch to continue
developing new features during the feature freeze.
I think Emacs lost a lot a new features during this process, especially
from contributors that send patches; most patches are lost or
are unusable after several months of modifications in trunk.

-- 
  Thierry
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