From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git transition checklist Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:28:24 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140108202824.GA6498@thyrsus.com> References: <20140108135200.8ECF9380834@snark.thyrsus.com> <837gaafij8.fsf@gnu.org> <20140108201104.GC5374@thyrsus.com> <83txdedxzw.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389212923 14469 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2014 20:28:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 20:28:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 08 21:28:49 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 1W0zk2-0000xP-1m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:28:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48822 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0zk1-00031w-Hy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:28:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59483) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0zju-00031Y-Bp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:28:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0zjq-00048P-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:28:34 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:60652 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0zjl-00046J-GW; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:28:25 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C91F5380E42; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:28:24 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83txdedxzw.fsf@gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 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:167807 Archived-At: 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. > And of course what you call "the lump of SHA1" is the most beautiful > thing in the whole world, so why should we be shy of that? Your sense of humor is too dry for me. I think I'll go slug down some limeade. -- Eric S. Raymond