On August 5th 2005 I uploaded the first version of emacs-snapshot to unstable. One year and 55 uploads later, we're nearing the 400 installations mark[1] in popcon, with the following subflavour repartition:
GTK: 55.1% X11: 32.7% NoX: 18.6% (Quite a few installations have more than one subflavour installed, which explains why the total is higher than 100%.) Over the past 12 months, a total of 60 bugs have been filed against emacs-snapshot, 56 of which have been closed (35 by new uploads). I've assembled a timeline to highlight interesting changes in emacs-snapshot or Emacs during that time: Aug 05: Initial emacs-snapshot upload Aug 25: Versioning scheme changed due to a bug in quinn-diff Sep 08: emacs-snapshot-el ships with compressed .el files[2][3] Sep 18: New newsticker.el package; fsync() option; linda overrides Oct 20: rcirc is included, first IRC client in Emacs; also new savehist.el Nov 03: .el files are compressed upstream Nov 11: Font-Lock enabled by default Nov 17: New Emacs icon; file-name-shadow-mode enabled by default Dec 15: SPC no longer completes in the minibuffer Jan 09: IPv6 support Jan 28: Subflavours: GTK and X11 versions can be installed concurrently[4] Feb 02: ERC is part of Emacs Mar 01: New package t-mouse.el May 19: sarge backport announced May 24: New ALSA sound interface Jun 23: emacs-snapshot honors `x-www-browser' With luck, next year's timeline will include the release of Emacs 22.1. Until then I'll keep on uploading snapshots every week to keep you all hooked... Cheers, -- ,''`. : :' : Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `. `' http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/ `- Footnotes: [1] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?popcon=emacs-snapshot [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2005/09/msg00001.html [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2005/09/msg00002.html [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2006/01/msg00050.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
