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: April 7 cutover for generating ChangeLog automatically Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 05:37:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83sickshet.fsf@gnu.org> References: <551A528C.7080008@cs.ucla.edu> <83mw2ttm3a.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnj9tj1u.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427855878 25432 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2015 02:37:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 02:37:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 01 04:37:44 2015 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 1Yd8XH-0008OJ-57 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:37:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41332 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yd8XG-0006fR-EH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:37:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40904) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yd8X3-0006ev-6c for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yd8Wz-0001Wm-UM for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:57668) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yd8Wz-0001WY-NT for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NM300100WCVQV00@mtaout26.012.net.il> for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 05:38:30 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NM30025EWO6XW00@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 05:38:30 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 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:184685 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, Emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:49:10 -0400 > > > So you are saying that emacs-24 should be frozen and no commits should > > be pushed to it, once 24.5 is released? > > Pretty much, except for important/urgent bug fixes or obviously > safe fixes. But this means there's a real possibility that there will be 24.6. More importantly, it means that we will have to use 2 confusingly different procedures. And now I don't understand why not get rid of ChangeLogs on the branch as well, the changes to do that are in parts of Emacs that cannot possibly cause any bugs.