From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.145]:27534 "EHLO ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965977AbdGTW1r (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:27:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:27:43 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: Collecting aged XFS profiles Message-ID: <20170720222743.GV17762@dastard> References: <20170717234814.GK17762@dastard> <20170720030252.GT17762@dastard> <93399fda-5d20-5ec9-14f1-5496814fed79@sandeen.net> <20170720043806.GU17762@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: Eric Sandeen Cc: Stefan Ring , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 09:24:58AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 07/19/2017 11:38 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:55:23PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > FWIW, people building from the git tree are probably using the > > master branch (v4.11.0), not the for-next branch. I used to stage > > all the -rcX releases in the master branch, which was why I was > > confused by this at first. Never mind, I'll update my scripts that > > haven't been pulling the xfsprogs for-next branch from kernel.org... > > yeah, I was doing that when I was new to the maintainer game, for-next > was rebasable and more forgiving. Maybe I should change that back. Yeah, for-next is more forgiving, but if you are tagging stuff for releases (even -rc) then it probably should have been merged back into the master branch and then tagged. I've always worked under the assumption that -rc releases are "stable" release points because you are asking the wider public to use and test the release.... i.e. If stuff needs to be undone after a -rc release then we should use reverts that explain why something was undone - rebasing the entire dev branch to remove the problem from recorded history means we can't easily find out why that thing caused problems years down the track. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com