From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The fixes-bug field Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:47:14 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140116214714.GA19493@thyrsus.com> References: <20140116141315.CA3BE380835@snark.thyrsus.com> <20140116163011.GC17303@thyrsus.com> <83d2jr3ly9.fsf@gnu.org> <20140116180809.GB17770@thyrsus.com> <8338kn3ha8.fsf@gnu.org> <20140116200456.GK17770@thyrsus.com> <83zjmv1upy.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389908882 7288 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2014 21:48:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 22:48:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3unK-0003Kz-21 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:48:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35190 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3unJ-0005pQ-L6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:48:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60206) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3un4-0005UT-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:47:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3un0-0000Tf-7G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:47:54 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:34134 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3umv-0000So-Cc; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:47:45 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 92EE13803A6; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:47:14 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83zjmv1upy.fsf@gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168584 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > I think we need to figure out these details and more or less agree on > them, before converting the repository (if needed). The worst thing > that can happen is to invest all that effort, only to find out later > that adding more "fixes bug NNN" commits don't work well, or that > there's a much more easy/elegant way of doing that. You guys figure out what policy you want. I'll either implement it or (less likely) explain why I can't. -- Eric S. Raymond