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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 23, 2011, 22:21 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <20110523212150.GF6281@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> 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.