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Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93
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Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93 |
Date: |
26 Jan 2007 12:35:28 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 |
"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:
> On 1/26/07, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > 4 pretest tarballs is not too many, I think.
>
> No, of course not. I'm more worried by the month-long interval between
> pretests than the number of them.
The main reason for this is that Richard has, in the past, insisted on
eliminating outstanding bugs before starting a new pretest. So I have
waited for the items in FOR-RELEASE items to be depleted before
rolling a new tarball. There is certainly no difficulty for me to
roll a tarball every week if we decide on that.
> No, of course not. I'm more worried by the month-long interval between
> pretests than the number of them. 30 days is enough for us to grow
> restless and leave us susceptible to featurettes posing as
> bug-fixes... (I have this mental image of us developers like the guys
> in Starship Troopers, surrounded by nasty, mean-looking bugs.)
If we were to release Emacs 22 right now, it would already be much
more polished than the average free software release. Personally, I
think that at this point, getting 5 years of accumulated crash and
data-corruption bugfixes into users' hands is more important that
scraping through the remaining handful of niggly bugs left in the
code---that ought to be what 22.2 is for. But we've been through this
discussion before.
> > during the pretest of Emacs 21,
> > I think many pretesters would send email short time after another
> > pretest was tarred, saying they have the new version up and running.
> > Perhaps we should ask them to provide this information now.
>
> Agreed.
One problem is Richard's time-lag. He has to receive my email through
emacs-devel about the pretest tarball, then send the email to the
pretesters list, which usually takes several days. I could send out
the pretest email directly if that makes things easier.
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, (continued)
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/01/23
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/01/26
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/01/26
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/01/26
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/01/26
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/01/26
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/01/26
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Richard Stallman, 2007/01/26
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/01/27
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Richard Stallman, 2007/01/28
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/01/28
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Frank Schmitt, 2007/01/26
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Romain Francoise, 2007/01/26
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Richard Stallman, 2007/01/26
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/01/27
- Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93, Yavor Doganov, 2007/01/29