>>>> "Bill" == William M Perry
<wmperry(a)aventail.com> writes:
Bill> Gunnar Evermann <ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> I think we need an 'FSF Liaison' much more urgently. This
should be
> someone who regularly tries to sync and coordinate changes/APIs with
> FSFemacs. Preferably this person should be on the secret FSF mailing list
> and have access to FSF pretests.
Bill> Well, I have access to the FSF pretests and am on the mailing list, but
Bill> Gerd asked a while ago that at least the pre-pre-pre-alpha version of the
Bill> pretest not be distributed outside the small group of testers. This
Bill> position may have changed now that the new redisplay is in the core Emacs
Bill> 20.5.92 pretests. I'll have to ask him.
Emacs 20.5 has been released.
rms explicitly denies XEmacs developers, like myself, access to the
Emacs pre-testers list.
Bill> Anybody else on both beta lists? If anyone has an @gnu.org account, you
Bill> should be able to get the CVS distribution of Emacs. It is in
Bill> :pserver:<acct>@cvs.gnu.org:/gd/gnu/cvsroot - module name is
'emacs' of
Bill> course. It would be much better to use kerberized rsh to get in there of
Bill> course.
Wow, I have access through martin(a)cvs.gnu.org!
Even though I haven't done actually logged in since they kerberized...
Martin