Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] replacing strbuf_getline_lf() by strbuf_getline()

From: Moritz Neeb <lists@moritzneeb.de>
Date: Mar 9, 2016, 01:13 UTC
Message-ID: <56DF78BD.2030506@moritzneeb.de>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq37s0jxgg.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 03/09/2016 01:39 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Moritz Neeb <lists@moritzneeb.de> writes:
> 
>> how to deal with patches during the v2.8.0 rc freeze? Will they wait on
>> the mailing list until the feature release cycle is finished?
> 
> Because people are expected to stop getting distracted by new
> features and no-op clean-up changes and instead to focus on helping
> find and fix regressions that have been introduced since v2.7.x
> series during the pre-release period, you may not get review
> comments unless your patches are really important.
>

Ok, I was not sure, sorry for the noise generated. Will resend post-release.

> To participate in regression hunting or not is your choice.

Say, I would like to participate. This might be a very naive question, but: What is the "workflow" in regression hunting?

There is this known "git status"-regression, where you seem to be at least close to a decision:

	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/288228/focus=288444

What I can imagine could lead towards finding regessions, though maybe a bit aimless: Go through the list of changes/patches that are supposed to be included in v2.8.0 and confirm they are working as expected. This would be like a post-review.