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diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus-coding.texi b/doc/misc/gnus-coding.texi index fc88a6d47b6..fd637ece6a8 100644 --- a/doc/misc/gnus-coding.texi +++ b/doc/misc/gnus-coding.texi @@ -32,16 +32,16 @@ license to the document, as described in section 6 of the license. @titlepage -@title Gnus Coding Style and Maintainance Guide +@title Gnus Coding Style and Maintenance Guide @author by Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@@gmx.de> @insertcopying @end titlepage -@c Obviously this is only a very rudimentary draft. We put it in CVS -@c anyway hoping that it might annoy someone enough to fix it. ;-) -@c Fixing only a paragraph also is appreciated. +@c Obviously this is only a very rudimentary draft. We put it in the +@c repository anyway hoping that it might annoy someone enough to fix +@c it. ;-) Fixing only a paragraph also is appreciated. @ifnottex @node Top @@ -255,15 +255,17 @@ XEmacs 21.1 and up. @section Stable and development versions -The development of Gnus normally is done on the CVS trunk, i.e. there -are no separate branches to develop and test new features. Most of the -time, the trunk is developed quite actively with more or less daily -changes. Only after a new major release, e.g. 5.10.1, there's usually a -feature period of several months. After the release of Gnus 5.10.6 the -development of new features started again on the trunk while the 5.10 -series is continued on the stable branch (v5-10) from which more stable -releases will be done when needed (5.10.8, @dots{}). -@ref{Gnus Development, ,Gnus Development, gnus, The Gnus Newsreader} +The development of Gnus normally is done on the Git repository trunk +as of April 19, 2010 (formerly it was done in CVS; the repository is +at http://git.gnus.org), i.e. there are no separate branches to +develop and test new features. Most of the time, the trunk is +developed quite actively with more or less daily changes. Only after +a new major release, e.g. 5.10.1, there's usually a feature period of +several months. After the release of Gnus 5.10.6 the development of +new features started again on the trunk while the 5.10 series is +continued on the stable branch (v5-10) from which more stable releases +will be done when needed (5.10.8, @dots{}). @ref{Gnus Development, +,Gnus Development, gnus, The Gnus Newsreader} Stable releases of Gnus finally become part of Emacs. E.g. Gnus 5.8 became a part of Emacs 21 (relabeled to Gnus 5.9). The 5.10 series @@ -333,8 +335,12 @@ rather than having to actually fix the code. @item For general Gnus development changes, of course you just make the -change on the Gnus CVS trunk and it goes into Emacs a few years +change on the Gnus Git trunk and it goes into Emacs a few years later... :-) + +With the new Git repository, we'll probably set up something to +automatically synchronize with Emacs when possible. CVS was much less +powerful for this kind of synchronization. @end itemize Of course in any case, if you just can't wait for me to sync your |