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Re: Branch freezing for release
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Branch freezing for release |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Apr 2019 15:24:31 +0300 |
> From: Noam Postavsky <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 06:18:33 -0400
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
> Emacs developers <address@hidden>
>
> > I'd hesitate to fix the number at 90 (or any other specific number),
> > because sometimes .90 is not close enough. We could say .100, but
> > AFAIR that happened only once or twice in the history, so it would not
> > be helpful. The problem here is that the number is not determined by
> > how close we think we are to the release, its correlation with that is
> > very weak.
>
> Yes, the only way to know is to follow emacs-devel, so for someone who
> doesn't follow the list, asking at anything above .90 is the only safe
> recommendation, right?
It's fine with me, but it would have meant that the emacs-26 branch
was frozen from the second pretest, which probably is too
conservative. I don't remember when we last started pretest with a
number below 90, maybe only when Emacs 21 was in its pretest. But if
others don't mind, neither do I.
- Re: Branch freezing for release, (continued)
- Re: Branch freezing for release, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/10
- Re: Branch freezing for release, Stefan Monnier, 2019/04/10
- Re: Branch freezing for release, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/10
- Re: Branch freezing for release, Dmitry Gutov, 2019/04/10
- Re: Branch freezing for release, Noam Postavsky, 2019/04/10
- Re: Branch freezing for release, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/11
- Re: Branch freezing for release, Noam Postavsky, 2019/04/11
- Re: Branch freezing for release, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/12
- Re: Branch freezing for release, Noam Postavsky, 2019/04/12
- Re: Branch freezing for release, Stefan Monnier, 2019/04/12
- Re: Branch freezing for release,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Branch freezing for release, Dmitry Gutov, 2019/04/12
Re: Branch freezing for release, Stefan Monnier, 2019/04/10