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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#40990: Improve message-mode and isearch icons |
Date: | Mon, 11 May 2020 17:18:15 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 |
On 11.05.2020 07:17, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
On May 11, 2020 5:46:03 AM GMT+03:00, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:On 11.05.2020 05:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote:You are just listing the advantages of releasing frequently. No one will argue with that, the problem is how to make that happen without hurting stability.I don't think it's possible not to sacrifice stability at all. It will most likely go down in XX.1 releases, at least to some extent.The stability already goes down in NN.1 versions, that's why we always have a NN.2 version to follow. We are talking about how much more it will decrease. If you have practical suggestions for how to keep the instability in check while making more frequent releases, I'm all ears.
I mean will go down compared to the current situation.But actually, if the period before branching, before stabilization, is also reduced proportionally, then fewer regressions will have a chance to sneak in. The odds of *some* regression remaining will likely go up, though.
For example, if we target, say, a new Emacs release every 6 months, then it will be 2 months development, 2 months stabilization, and 2 months prerelease (with new developments doing to the master for the last 4 months).
With cycles like that, there will also be less temptation to "sneak that last feature in", or land an experimental feature later in the cycle. Developers will also moderate the risk themselves.
As for regression bugs remaining at each time, maybe the way to look at them is: If the period between when the regression happened and when it was reported will be longer than the time to the next minor release, maybe we can do the release now. And thus nominate fewer bugs to be actual blockers.
Right now Emacs releases, and even development branches, are fairly stable, so we have some margin for experimentation.
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