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: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:16:12 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140117131612.GA23999@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> <20140116214714.GA19493@thyrsus.com> <83sisn12sk.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 1389964583 15537 80.91.229.3 (17 Jan 2014 13:16:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:16:23 +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 Fri Jan 17 14:16:30 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 1W49Hh-0000GF-My for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:16:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38131 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W49Hh-00065D-97 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:16:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43157) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W49Ha-00064w-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:16:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W49HW-0003kp-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:16:22 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:38833 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W49HR-0003jJ-TB; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:16:13 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 11847381EFC; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:16:12 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83sisn12sk.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:168605 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > > You guys figure out what policy you want. I'll either implement it > > or (less likely) explain why I can't. > > I don't know enough about git to make useful suggestions, sorry. > > I also don't quite understand what you mean by "policy". That is, what form of machine-readable stamp you want to put on commits. I think Paul Eggert answered this pretty well. -- Eric S. Raymond