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: Tag cleanup Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 06:26:24 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140109112624.GB4818@thyrsus.com> References: <20140109053729.E9DC43805F2@snark.thyrsus.com> 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 1389266825 862 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 11:27:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 12:27:12 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 1W1DlS-0003rK-Qd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:27:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51307 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1DlS-0003E2-AP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 06:27:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53698) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1DlK-0003Dg-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 06:27:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1DlG-0007cw-JU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 06:26:58 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:37513 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1DlG-0007cs-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 06:26:54 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 48C1F3805F2; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 06:26:24 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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:167885 Archived-At: Yuri Khan : > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > Please examine this list of tag names, I want to know which should > > be thrown out to reduce clutter. > > I think there should be a question which tags should become annotated > cryptographically signed permanent part-of-history tags (my guess is > at least all release and point-release tags, and probably pretest tags > if they are to stay), and which should remain lightweight transient > just-pointer-to-commit tags (I guess all private) That question was going to be phase two after I got the list decluttered. (I agree witn your guess, as far as that goes.) -- Eric S. Raymond