From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 26.2 RC1 is out! Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:55:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83a7hntn2c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87o965nq4q.fsf@petton.fr> <87ftrgod5o.fsf@petton.fr> <87o964kl4p.fsf@petton.fr> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="237161"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rgm@gnu.org, andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 22 08:14:23 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h7ENj-000zYF-Eg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 08:14:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7ENh-0000yZ-QV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:14:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54107) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7EKm-0006yk-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52815) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7E5r-000624-HR; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 02:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1172 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h7E5q-0003nE-Ez; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 02:55:54 -0400 In-reply-to: <87o964kl4p.fsf@petton.fr> (message from Nicolas Petton on Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:50:14 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:234517 Archived-At: > From: Nicolas Petton > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:50:14 +0100 > Cc: rgm@gnu.org > > I'm putting Glenn in Cc, I believe he wrote that part of the > documentation. > > > A tarball for distribution should not contain anything that has not > > been committed to version control. > > I agree with that, but it's not the current process as described in > admin/make-tarball.txt. I'm fine with tagging RCs and pushing files > with unreleased version numbers, but then I will adjust the content of > make-tarball.txt. Can you (or Glenn or someone else) describe what would need to be changed in the docs, and what additional actions would have to be made? I don't think I mind RC tags in the repository, even if they eventually point to the same commit as the release, but I'm not sure I understand the details well enough. Thanks.