X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["741" "Wed" "2" "December" "1998" "13:16:23" "+0100" "Frank Mittelbach" "fmitte01@EDS.DE" nil "20" "Re: December release" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20199; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:18:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <5.B3FB8EE3@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:18:24 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 412466 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:17:59 +0100 Received: from gate.eds.de (gate.eds.de [205.191.194.5]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA23047 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:17:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from nsru2.tse.de.eds.com by gate.eds.de with SMTP id AA03657 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for ); Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:17:40 GMT Received: from n15ux24.nets.de.eds.com (n15ux24.nets.de.eds.com [206.122.103.15]) by nsru2.tse.de.eds.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA10349 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:17:39 GMT Received: by n15ux24.nets.de.eds.com (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA247820984; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:16:24 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <009D0125.5E5F61E0.1@ROSE.IPM.AC.IR> X-Mailer: VM 6.62 under Emacs 19.34.1 Message-ID: <13925.12183.663833.726347@n15ux24.nets.de.eds.com> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:16:23 +0100 From: Frank Mittelbach Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: December release Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3016 Robin writes: > > Wasn't a release programmed on December 1st? I think it is already > > December 2nd here. A new release will somehow stop these (those?) guys > > from this kind of theoretical philosophy, I think ;) > > the documentation can be read to imply that releases are _at most_ > every six months. > > do we actually _require_ a release? -- there hasn't been much in the > bugs database... i don't expect the release to be around before late jan. the latex2e release dates have been always just nominal dates --- i think we never made it on time and this time we will be pretty late. and yes there will be a release (though without many changes) but there are still a few things to sort out (and no time for it) frank