git issues/bugs - is there an alert process?

git issues/bugs - is there an alert process?

[funeeldy]

Is there any way for me to sign up to get alerts for serious bugs discovered
in a version of git?
Evidently, there have been some pretty serious bugs in version 1.7.3 that I
didn't even know about, and they may have caused problems for my developers. 
with more and more enterprise use of git, we really need to be able to
support it in a more robust manner.
Thanks
Marlene

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Re: git issues/bugs - is there an alert process?

[Jeff King]

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.

-Peff

Re: git issues/bugs - is there an alert process?

[Junio C Hamano]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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.

Re: git issues/bugs - is there an alert process?

[Jakub Narebski]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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.

I don't know anything about announce-only mailing list, but 
GIT Mailing List RSS Feeds (based on filtering mails) is available
at http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

Re: git issues/bugs - is there an alert process?

[Jeff King]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 06:59:51AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> I don't know anything about announce-only mailing list, but 
> GIT Mailing List RSS Feeds (based on filtering mails) is available
> at http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/

Thanks, that was the feed I was thinking of.

-Peff