From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 05:44:34 +0200 Message-ID: <831t7ltyzh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <87vb4zb0i4.fsf@gnu.org> <837fheuu6a.fsf@gnu.org> <877fheb1rh.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ziua9mwq.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83h9git36k.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb4y9ep9.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83a8mat2aa.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3fm9du0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <56DDF901.1080600@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457408687 12734 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 03:44:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 03:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?windows-1252?Q?Cl=E9ment?= Pit--Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 04:44:45 2016 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 1ad8Zg-0001AQ-0i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 04:44:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59977 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad8Zf-0003Sx-Hl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:44:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44899) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad8ZS-0003Sh-8h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:44:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad8ZP-0004i8-29 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:44:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58525) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad8ZO-0004hz-V5; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:44:26 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2197 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ad8ZO-0001S5-A5; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:44:26 -0500 In-reply-to: <56DDF901.1080600@gmail.com> (message from =?windows-1252?Q?C?= =?windows-1252?Q?l=E9ment?= Pit--Claudel on Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:56:17 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:201113 Archived-At: > From: Clément Pit--Claudel > Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:56:17 -0500 > > > Introduce code reviews. Don't give commit access to the "golden" > > branches to everyone, just to a few top contributors and reviewers. > > Wouldn't that be a very big change in the way Emacs development works, much bigger than deciding for or against Changelogs? Of course, it will. More importantly, we simply don't have the resources for that. The result will be a total slowdown of development, a never-ending patch queue, and burn-out of lead developers.