From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yuri Khan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tag cleanup Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:44:16 +0700 Message-ID: References: <20140109053729.E9DC43805F2@snark.thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389257057 15756 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 08:44:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 09:44:25 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 1W1BDz-0006ny-4k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 09:44:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1BDy-0006c9-Q8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:44:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40585) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1BDu-0006Xh-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:44:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1BDt-0007Yc-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:44:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qe0-x229.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c02::229]:43019) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1BDs-0007YX-Ts for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:44:16 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-qe0-f41.google.com with SMTP id gh4so2882784qeb.0 for ; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:44:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ePCwFaQ3msvjqR2VJ1XhjQQqt71fKYmZnKLs+OYeF1Y=; b=KuKUMcheAUivCfoEE2LEL7P1V2w+zx3KbVisZg8prtoHlQfAN5eLgiB8UtXor4G7Re UpMWetWwGDorIJMxmZ3uPZIlRcGMqQ+QGDboFpN2vWnaJECptQRYKMT4zQFM0dX3KY7J oGu++p1+Ygbg4qQPxSxbdycupU+5l/MINqzZFvj3KN6a1YSJppnDH9VyZpVj0afRyU+b gitTqo5Zj4TVjNqTddecG+YJ5lYRqno25weqDgZFPgxw15X21Q2Yd4HJfZNVCI0kVtPQ w4C7np5JGA7DOFt+ZqYhwbjJhBF8941EL0qpOOEH7sABrkeQX938xscEwTPwndT6DOSE d4Mg== X-Received: by 10.49.86.169 with SMTP id q9mr4717307qez.19.1389257056145; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:44:16 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.96.14.74 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 00:44:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20140109053729.E9DC43805F2@snark.thyrsus.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: l_TcqKzIDI3whkHkZqeK48-eV9w X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400d:c02::229 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:167875 Archived-At: On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Please examine this list of tag names, I want to know which should > be thrown out to reduce clutter. I think there should be a question which tags should become annotated cryptographically signed permanent part-of-history tags (my guess is at least all release and point-release tags, and probably pretest tags if they are to stay), and which should remain lightweight transient just-pointer-to-commit tags (I guess all private)