Re: when emacs 22.1 release will ready?

[Leo]

----- Kim F. Storm (2007-04-30) wrote:-----

> + So it's been over two and a half months, and while it's certainly
> + not the longest release cycle ever, it still dragged out a bit
> + longer than I'd have hoped for and it should have. As usual, I'd
> + like to thank Adrian (and the people who jumped on the entries
> + Adrian had) for keeping everybody on their toes with the regression
> + list - there's a few entries there still, but it got to the point
> + where we didn't even know if they were real regressions, and
> + delaying things further just wasn't going to help.
>
> With a similar release procedure for Emacs, Emacs 22.1 had been
> released in 2004, and 23.4 would be ready for release next month.

Long term release hurts every project. The huge success of the kernel
again shows the only thing to make RMS change is to do something better
than him like what XEmacs did in the past and what Ubuntu did to Debian.

I wonder why would people tolerate his dictatorship in the `free'
software realm.

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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)