From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Maintainership Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:51:20 +0200 Message-ID: <83sist8ah3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140112040940.GC32704@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389541906 9373 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2014 15:51:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:51:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 12 16:51:52 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 1W2NKH-0004K6-V9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:51:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38373 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2NKH-0001FS-Fj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:51:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2NK9-0001FN-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:51:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2NK4-0002qN-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:51:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:44062) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2NK4-0002q7-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:51:36 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZA00I00PC2O900@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:51:34 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZA00IXVPDY1I60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:51:34 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20140112040940.GC32704@thyrsus.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:168191 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 23:09:40 -0500 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > You have expressed "100% agreement" with a post objecting to me doing /etc > cleanup during feature freeze. The objection is only to doing this on the trunk. I suggest doing this on a branch instead, then you can do whatever you like without affecting anyone else (unless they want to be affected). You can do that on a local branch, in which case the procedures are as described on the Wiki, under "task branch" (whcih you are already familiar with). Or you can push that branch to Savannah, in which case it becomes a public one, and will get converted into the git mirror, so that both you and others can try it with git and/or with bzr. The Wiki describes how to push. Then you can merge the branch onto the trunk when we all agree that the time came for that. P.S. While you work on a branch, it is generally advisable to merge from trunk once in a few days. But since the trunk is in feature freeze now, and until that freeze is over, you can do the merges much less frequently.