Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.]

[Nick Roberts]

This thread has discussed help with stable Emacs releases. Much of the
frustration on this list seems to occur earlier in the development
process. Other projects, notably XEmacs, make beta releases for inclusion with
unstable GNU/Linux distributions such as Debian's sid and the Mandrake
Cooker. It occurs to me that if Emacs did this too i.e made beta releases from
the trunk, there would be more pairs of eyes and it would therefore make for a
faster stable release. It doesn't seem realistic or even reasonable to expect
a handful of developers to do all the work. I don't know, maybe the pretests
do get included in such distributions but it seems to me that more leverage
could be obtained by always having a beta version (not in CVS) available.

Nick