2008/8/17 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>

>
> On 17 August 2008 at 00:18, Martin Maechler wrote:
> | >>>>> "DE" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
> | >>>>>     on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:27:47 -0500 writes:
> |
> |     DE> Now back from UseR where I promptly forgot to ask
> |     DE> Marting about this, I did an innocent 'svn up' and
> |     DE> noticed the flood of changes. Cool!  So shall we make a
> |     DE> new Debian release as a 5.3.9~3939 ? Or wait for 5.3.9 ?
> |
> |     DE> Also, I guess I am missing when releases are made as I
> |     DE> didn't move from 5.3.8~3917 to a proper 5.3.8. Is there
> |     DE> an ess-announce list ?
> |
> | There's only one public ESS - list and that's where the
> | announcement went --- on July 28 .
> | { I had 'BCC:'ed it to ESS-debian,
> |   but my mailing list filters don't accept postings via BCC. }
> |
> | Here's the svn log :
> |
> | ----
> | r3929 | maechler | 2008-07-28 08:32:28 +0200 (Mon, 28 Jul 2008) | 1 line
> | Changed paths:
> |    M ChangeLog
> |
> | Version 5.3.8
> | ----
> |
> | The changes since then are too little for a new release (5.3.9).
> | But I think debian should release 5.3.8 proper (i.e. up to rev 3929).
>
> It is too late anyway for the freeze.  And if we make a new release, why
> not
> use what is current in svn?
>
> Also, I forgot to ask earlier:  did anything happen with respect to our
> open
> Debian bug report:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=371058
>

Well that report just reports a very long standing "missing feature"... or
call it bug.

We (ESS-core) now about the fact, and for me it is one of the most important
TODOs for ESS:

Make all the fancy ways that you can call help() in R work with ESS.
R 2.8.0 will bring even  "??" and "???" behavior.

Martin

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