From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Relationship between 23.1.90 pretest and 23.2 pretest? Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:57:03 -0500 Message-ID: <871vj178kg.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87k4wux5ls.fsf@red-bean.com> <87skbialcq.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260550725 5334 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2009 16:58:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:58:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Fogel , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 11 17:58:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NJ8pB-0001yu-9w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:58:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NJ8pB-00071W-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:58:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJ8nl-0006IK-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:57:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJ8ng-0006HC-M7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:57:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56093 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NJ8ng-0006H7-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:57:04 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po42.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.101]:58271) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NJ8ng-0004gC-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:57:04 -0500 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014216.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.216]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po42.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id nBBGv3Us008658 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:57:03 -0500 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 22EF1C071; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:57:03 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:05:39 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:118546 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Personally I'm not convinced those should stop us from switching now > since I expect the Xmas season to be a good "quiet" time for the switch: > 1- declare a 100% freeze on any commits. > 2- ask Andreas to perform one last conversion. > 3- ask the Savannah admins to make the CVS repository read-only. > 4- when the conversion is done and looks good: declare victory. > 5- start rebuilding the country: get Loggerhead working, get > commit-diffs emails working, get bzr+ssh working, ... A good way to do this would be to just jump to step 3. Then, whichever time the Savannah admins get around to making the CVS repository read-only, will be the time everyone needs to migrate. Less co-ordination involved