From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git issues/bugs - is there an alert process? Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:21:23 -0700 Message-ID: <7v62p1ukgs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1306172653284-6395510.post@n2.nabble.com> <20110523212150.GF6281@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: funeeldy , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 24 00:21:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QOdVK-00019P-KS for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 00:21:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030494Ab1EWWVd (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 18:21:33 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:34679 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030378Ab1EWWVd (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 18:21:33 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC36467C; Mon, 23 May 2011 18:23:40 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=i1tbrJFP05Dk/MtwJTI7vj2d/0c=; b=ITGZ3r JmyOfTZu2I5n0DnZOCxmIQDGde/IKaFwTQCP6BoFKP1iPLlVCAtWjoNI6u8I3cTW KUs5kjcVURhjdMLDLkHPYwbQFFiTafoIynrewQ0V7VtWz9Y0XTeErgR/2d/Mqd03 yD7+fcHIY2M4fjlePRFnlH8BLuYT10hIqMMUU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=WdOl12g6Qh9OIo6fxTG3B8mSpZXeNuLW oI4IEG9gHUXpcLMPlQs9C2McjSBBeMc5pJgpZ98+F3WSFdcV+qbE+28hQMmOKrxu N5J76yCNw4JceYbOe/Ojm9TZYUyQPuEN3ruOYUoecs1fh3Tum872P0E7AgZ2bbiz CLF2o3ijRiw= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1627F4679; Mon, 23 May 2011 18:23:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F0A624678; Mon, 23 May 2011 18:23:32 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20110523212150.GF6281@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 23 May 2011 17:21:50 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 4D9B2A7C-858B-11E0-A9ED-D6B6226F3D4C-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:44:13AM -0700, funeeldy wrote: > >> Is there any way for me to sign up to get alerts for serious bugs discovered >> in a version of git? > > You can read the release notes; minor versions are always bugfix > releases, and important bugfixes are backported to them. If you read > only the [ANNOUNCE] messages on git@vger, you will see new releases. > > I seem to recall we have an announce-only mailing list, and somebody set > up an rss feed, but I don't remember the details. Maybe somebody else > does, or you can find it via google. Well said. Also it seems that we haven't had a need to alert for serious bugs that often ;-). Certainly this particular one is not a "serious" bug, but merely a failure in tutorial documents at most. I am however worried about the rate we see minor regressions on 'master' post 1.7.5, which seems to suggest that people on this list are getting a bit complacent than they should be and perhaps not testing 'next' but are on 'master'. The promise of 'master' always being more stable than any released version depends on competent testers and users using the 'next' version for their day to day work. Thanks.