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 16:26:00 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140108212600.GA6976@thyrsus.com> References: <20140108135200.8ECF9380834@snark.thyrsus.com> <837gaafij8.fsf@gnu.org> <20140108201104.GC5374@thyrsus.com> <83txdedxzw.fsf@gnu.org> <20140108202824.GA6498@thyrsus.com> <83ppo2dw2b.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 1389216430 24431 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2014 21:27:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 21:27:10 +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 22:27:17 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 1W10eh-0006Lc-BH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:27:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W10eg-0004W0-Sb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:27:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44833) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W10e8-0003z3-F8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:26:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W10e4-0004lk-7S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:26:40 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:60910 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W10dz-0004d2-E2; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:26:31 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B65CD380E42; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:26:00 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83ppo2dw2b.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:167816 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > > 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. Maybe not, but mussing a tag is also very easy to cirrect retroactively. > > Your sense of humor is too dry for me. > > Sorry about that. Um. That was a joke. Partly. :-) -- Eric S. Raymond