From: Moritz Neeb Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 01:13:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] replacing strbuf_getline_lf() by strbuf_getline() Message-ID: <56DF78BD.2030506@moritzneeb.de> In-Reply-To: On 03/09/2016 01:39 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Moritz Neeb 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.