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From: Adrian Aichner <aichner@ecf.teradyne.com>
Date: 24 Jun 1997 11:45:30 +0200
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of "24 Jun 1997 02:25:25 -0700"
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>>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

Hello Steven,

    sb> Do the release announcements or the list get read?  (Just asking).

I read 'em. They all get ticked in my Gnus Summary Buffer immediately!

    sb> Sorry for ranting, but I spend a lot of time writing the release
    sb> announcements.  If they're not going to be read, I can easily spend a
    sb> lot less.

    sb> Please, please read this list carefully in the first 24-48 hours after 
    sb> a beta is released.  Most of the major problems get patch fixes posted
    sb> well before then.  There are extremely bright and quick contributors
    sb> out there ...  Would it help to have a message `blessing' posted patches?

I think that's an excellent idea!

Gary, Hrvoje and you completely lost me on the
bookmark-auto-autoloads-x-menubar patches.

Although this is very useful for people working in parallel to fix a
problem or toss suggested fixes around, it can be difficult to follow
for.

I would love to see all the bookmark patches and discussions and then, 
finally, see something like a
`Fixed in 20.3-b9; Blessed bookmark.el patch'.
It would be excellent if these blessed patches could be based on a
clean installation for a given beta.

If one blessed patch depends on another, that could simply be
indicated by a Reference: to that article, perhaps.

Let me stop here. I realize to be asking for a lot of things.
Anyway, blessed patches based on a defined beta release would be a
great help.

    sb> If xemacs-beta is not considered valuable reading, I would welcome
    sb> suggestions on how to make it more useful.  Something appears to be

It IS useful! You couldn't get support like this from a commercial
supplier; not for a finite amount of money, at least.

Best regards,

Adrian

    sb> going terribly wrong and I wish to fix it.
    sb> -- 
    sb> steve@calag.com baur
    sb> Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be billed at $250/message.


