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 12:11:24 +0300 Message-ID: <83k1grs283.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87o965nq4q.fsf@petton.fr> <87ftrgod5o.fsf@petton.fr> <87o964kl4p.fsf@petton.fr> <83a7hntn2c.fsf@gnu.org> <87lg17l1xi.fsf@petton.fr> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="203171"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rgm@gnu.org, andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 22 10:11:30 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 1h7GD4-000qkV-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:11:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54335 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7GD3-00030j-9N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 05:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48463) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7GCw-00030b-Oy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 05:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7GCw-0003p5-Eq; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 05:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1833 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h7GCv-000681-DH; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 05:11:21 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lg17l1xi.fsf@petton.fr> (message from Nicolas Petton on Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:59:37 +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:234529 Archived-At: > From: Nicolas Petton > Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rgm@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:59:37 +0100 > > The doc says that it's best not to commit the files that change the > version number (to 26.2 in our case) and the release date (it's set to a > future date, and is subject to change). > > If we change that process, the docs should say instead to make commit > those files, and make a tag, just like we do for pretests. > > > I don't think I mind RC tags in the repository, even if they > > eventually point to the same commit as the release, but I'm not sure I > > understand the details well enough. > > The only issue is that we push files with a version number and release > date that is not final (if the RC has issues). Thanks for the explanations. Which are the affected files?