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Re: Gnus branches and sync with Emacs
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Gnus branches and sync with Emacs |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:46:19 +0900 |
Steinar Bang writes:
> >>>>> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>:
>
> > What the bzr repo will make definitely *much* easier *immediately* is
> > for you to keep your own bleeding edge branch locally, and then push
> > from there to the Gnus mainline when it's "open for commits". You'll
> > need to learn more of bzr than you might otherwise, but it's worth it.
>
> FWIW I have been using the Gnus trunk for over ten years now (closing on
> twelve, I think), and except for when lars were rolling releases,
I'm not suggesting *any* workflow for Gnus. I'm saying that
some things become easier with a dVCS and others do not.
> If you are going to do big changes, it's much better to let them loose
> on a bunch of testers as early as possible, instead of sitting with them
> on a branch just testing them yourself, and then committing them
> big-bang to the trunk.
Sure; but "early as possible" definitely varies by project. Gnus as
an independent project from which Emacs syncs occasionally is a rather
different entity from one which is more closely integrated to Emacs,
eg, supplying reusable components to mail-mode and eventually RMail.
- Gnus branches and sync with Emacs (was: Branch for 23.1?), Reiner Steib, 2009/07/18
- Re: Gnus branches and sync with Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2009/07/20
- Re: Gnus branches and sync with Emacs, Chong Yidong, 2009/07/20
- Re: Gnus branches and sync with Emacs, Reiner Steib, 2009/07/20
- Re: Gnus branches and sync with Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2009/07/20
- Re: Gnus branches and sync with Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2009/07/21
- Re: Gnus branches and sync with Emacs, Reiner Steib, 2009/07/21
- Re: Gnus branches and sync with Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2009/07/21
- Re: Gnus branches and sync with Emacs, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/07/22
- Re: Gnus branches and sync with Emacs, Steinar Bang, 2009/07/26
- Re: Gnus branches and sync with Emacs,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=