From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please pretest Emacs 21.3 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 14:58:08 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1022504422 673 127.0.0.1 (27 May 2002 13:00:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 13:00:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17CK6o-0000Ak-00 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 15:00:22 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17CKO9-0007Fp-00 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 15:18:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17CK7N-0005jn-00; Mon, 27 May 2002 09:00:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17CK4i-0005aa-00; Mon, 27 May 2002 08:58:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Charybdis.suse.de [213.95.15.201]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D2D147D0; Mon, 27 May 2002 14:58:11 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f Original-To: Eli Zaretskii X-Yow: Yow! It's a hole all the way to downtown Burbank! In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 27 May 2002 14:06:27 +0300 (IDT)") Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (ia64-suse-linux) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4434 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4434 Eli Zaretskii writes: |> On Mon, 27 May 2002, Andreas Schwab wrote: |> |> > Please add a tag whenever you make a pretest. |> |> I intended to tag the released version only. |> |> Why is it important to tag a pretest, if we don't create a branch? So that people can know what went into the pretest without having to download the tarball. |> (Any |> additional CVS command I need to issue as part of the pretest preparation |> is a nuisance, something I could forget or mess up. So I'd like to avoid |> anything that is not necessary.) That's what shell scripts are for. It's always better to create too many tags than to create too few, because retroactive tagging is a pain. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."