From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Release branch plans
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:02:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831uo2cjdj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837gxudgko.fsf@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:04:55 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > No: history is something that gets recorded "for eternity", whereas its
> > rendition in human form is done on the fly and can be fixed by
> > subsequent releases (or by the use of other tools, options, ...).
> > Hence history is of utmost importance, whereas its rendition is secondary.
>
> And you still didn't say what is it important _for_, if not for being
> investigated by humans. Until you explain that, I consider your
> arguments void
Ouch! that sounds offensive, which was not the intent, far from it.
Sorry.
What I meant was that, unless you tell what uses of history you
consider important, the arguments are not convincing at all, because
they don't reveal any practical reasons for which you are so opposed
to cherry-picking, for example.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-05 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-02 5:28 Emacs pretest 24.0.95 Chong Yidong
2012-04-02 5:38 ` Release branch plans Chong Yidong
2012-04-02 7:47 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-02 8:08 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-03 13:48 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-05 12:57 ` GnuTLS docs (was: Release branch plans) Ted Zlatanov
2012-04-05 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-05 17:12 ` GnuTLS docs Ted Zlatanov
2012-04-05 21:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-05 22:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-04-06 9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-09 1:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-04-09 7:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-09 12:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-04-09 12:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-09 13:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-04-09 16:17 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-09 16:19 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-09 16:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-04-09 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-09 17:28 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-09 18:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-04-09 19:17 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-09 19:59 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-10 0:14 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-04-13 0:04 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-02 8:05 ` Release branch plans Michael Albinus
2012-04-02 8:16 ` Chong Yidong
2012-04-03 13:50 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-04 15:36 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-05 12:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-04-05 20:18 ` auth.texi (was: Release branch plans) Michael Albinus
2012-04-05 21:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-05 22:31 ` auth.texi Ted Zlatanov
2012-04-02 10:40 ` Release branch plans Andreas Schwab
2012-04-02 13:31 ` Chong Yidong
2012-04-02 13:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-02 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-03 10:53 ` Chong Yidong
2012-04-03 13:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-03 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-02 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-02 17:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-02 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-02 18:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-02 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-02 22:20 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-02 22:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-04-02 22:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-02 23:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-04-02 22:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-03 1:12 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-03 1:26 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-03 10:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-03 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-03 19:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-04 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-04 17:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-04 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-04 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-05 3:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-05 13:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-05 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-05 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-05 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-05 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-04-03 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-04 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-02 20:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-07 2:37 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-02 19:03 ` Emacs pretest 24.0.95 Glenn Morris
2012-04-02 20:20 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-02 20:28 ` Tags in Emacs repository [was Re: Emacs pretest 24.0.95] Glenn Morris
2012-04-02 20:44 ` Tags in Emacs repository Glenn Morris
2012-04-02 20:47 ` Tags in Emacs repository [was Re: Emacs pretest 24.0.95] Andreas Schwab
2012-04-02 22:31 ` Tags in Emacs repository Glenn Morris
2012-04-03 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-03 20:04 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-04 1:48 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-04 1:59 ` Glenn Morris
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=831uo2cjdj.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.