From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 26.2 RC1 is out! Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:25:28 +0200 Message-ID: <83ef6zrysn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87o965nq4q.fsf@petton.fr> <87ftrgod5o.fsf@petton.fr> <87o964kl4p.fsf@petton.fr> <83a7hntn2c.fsf@gnu.org> <87lg17l1xi.fsf@petton.fr> <83k1grs283.fsf@gnu.org> <877ecrl06s.fsf@petton.fr> <83imwbs0ip.fsf@gnu.org> <874l7vkziq.fsf@petton.fr> <83h8bvrzyi.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="37174"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rgm@gnu.org, nicolas@petton.fr, andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 22 11:36:01 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h7HWr-0009Vd-OH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:36:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55258 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7HWq-0004TF-Kz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:36:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37631) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7HWW-0003se-Km for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60248) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7HMl-0003cY-BX; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:25:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2932 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h7HMj-0008Jh-DV; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:25:33 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:16:49 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:234541 Archived-At: > From: Philippe Vaucher > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:16:49 +0100 > Cc: Nicolas Petton , Glenn Morris , andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, > Emacs developers > > > That, and the HISTORY file contains a release date for 26.2 as well. > > It's the same problem. Suppose we update HISTORY to the date of RC1. > If RC1 becomes Emacs 26.2, the date in HISTORY is correct; otherwise > we will commit a modified HISTORY with the release of the next RC. > > Just a note: with my proposal there is always a difference between 26.2-rc1 and 26.2 (the names), so the > history date would change as well. If there's a difference, then it isn't an RC. A Release Candidate means that if no significant problems are reported, the RC _becomes_ the official release, by just renaming the tarball without changing its contents. What you propose would be appropriate for a pretest, not for an RC.