From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:36:42 +0300 Message-ID: <831snapsw5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wp55t0un.fsf@petton.fr> <87r2vctasb.fsf@petton.fr> <87mv60t6sk.fsf@petton.fr> <837ex4q6uy.fsf@gnu.org> <98D64EB8-736A-4B62-B899-FCB8B94FBEB1@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505313517 13412 195.159.176.226 (13 Sep 2017 14:38:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:38:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nicolas@petton.fr, rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 13 16:38:33 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ds8oB-0003IV-Da for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:38:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42878 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ds8oI-0001yI-Ge for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:38:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ds8mi-0001MW-UZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ds8me-00084z-OM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:37:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46695) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ds8mT-0007wb-2p; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3394 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ds8mQ-0000N0-U9; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:36:44 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Schwab on Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:48:49 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218188 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, nicolas@petton.fr, rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com > Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:48:49 +0200 > > On Sep 13 2017, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > The full source is in the tarball, and the change was posted in advance. > > How can a Git branch increase the trust is beyond me. > > > > This certainly smells of NIH etc. > > It's about ignoring best practices. They were not ignored. And we don't have "best practices" for such a contingency, at least not yet.