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: Git transition checklist Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:04:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83ppo2dw2b.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140108135200.8ECF9380834@snark.thyrsus.com> <837gaafij8.fsf@gnu.org> <20140108201104.GC5374@thyrsus.com> <83txdedxzw.fsf@gnu.org> <20140108202824.GA6498@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389215103 7904 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2014 21:05:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 21:05:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 08 22:05:07 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 1W10JF-0006iV-T6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:05:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48929 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W10JF-0005AD-EI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:05:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39199) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W10J6-000584-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W10J0-00065Y-Lg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:04:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:42319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W10J0-00065Q-DH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:04:50 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZ300200P51KU00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:04:49 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZ3002B7P806H90@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:04:49 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20140108202824.GA6498@thyrsus.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:167810 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:28:24 -0500 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii : > > "Proper release tags" are something for humans to remember doing, and > > so is unreliable. > > Huh? Emacs release don't happen so often, or with so little ceremony, > that we can expect that step to get skipped once it becomes policy. Policy or not, we had this kind of mistakes in the past (releases and branches that did not get proper tags). I see no reason why these will not be repeated. > Your sense of humor is too dry for me. Sorry about that.