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Draft of Git Rev News edition 99

Subject: Draft of Git Rev News edition 99

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3 messages between May 29, 2023 and Jun 2, 2023.

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Christian Couder· May 29, 2023, 22:34 UTC · lore

Hi everyone!

A draft of a new Git Rev News edition is available here:

  https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-99.md

Everyone is welcome to contribute in any section either by editing the above page on GitHub and sending a pull request, or by commenting on this GitHub issue:

  https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/643

You can also reply to this email.

In general all kinds of contributions, for example proofreading, suggestions for articles or links, help on the issues in GitHub, volunteering for being interviewed and so on, are very much appreciated.

I tried to Cc everyone who appears in this edition, but maybe I missed some people, sorry about that.

Jakub, Markus, Kaartic and I plan to publish this edition very late on Wednesday May 31st.

Thanks, Christian.

Bagas Sanjaya· May 30, 2023, 01:10 UTC · re: Christian Couder · lore

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 99

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 12:34:17AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

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> Everyone is welcome to contribute in any section either by editing the
> above page on GitHub and sending a pull request, or by commenting on
> this GitHub issue:
> 
>   https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/643
> 
> You can also reply to this email.

From the draft:

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> After some discussions between Peff, Phillip and Junio, Peff sent a version 3
> of his patch series with small changes. Especially the new version makes sure
> we reject timestamps that start with a character that we don't consider a
> whitespace or a digit or the - character before using strtoumax(3) as this was
> considered enough to avoid issues related to this function.

I think it's odd to have second person (we) when the text is written in third-person perspective. Thus, abouve should have been:

> ... Especially in the new version, it made sure that timestamps that were
> started with a character that wasn't considered as either a whitespace, a
> digit, or - character, were rejected before using strtoumax(3) ...

Thanks.

-- 
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Christian Couder· Jun 2, 2023, 10:19 UTC · re: Bagas Sanjaya · lore

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 99

Hi Bagas,

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 3:17 AM Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> wrote:

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> > After some discussions between Peff, Phillip and Junio, Peff sent a version 3
> > of his patch series with small changes. Especially the new version makes sure
> > we reject timestamps that start with a character that we don't consider a
> > whitespace or a digit or the - character before using strtoumax(3) as this was
> > considered enough to avoid issues related to this function.
>
> I think it's odd to have second person (we) when the text is written in

I think "we" is the first person.

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> third-person perspective. Thus, abouve should have been:
>
> > ... Especially in the new version, it made sure that timestamps that were
> > started with a character that wasn't considered as either a whitespace, a
> > digit, or - character, were rejected before using strtoumax(3) ...
>
> Thanks.

Thanks for your suggestion and sorry for forgetting to take it into account.

I must say that I think it's Ok to use "we" instead of "the Git community" in Git Rev News. I think we have often taken this perspective before.

By the way, does someone knows why the announce of edition 99 doesn't seem to have appeared yet on https://lore.kernel.org/git/ :

https://lore.kernel.org/git/?q=s%3A%22Git+Rev+News+edition+99%22

while it appeared on https://public-inbox.org/git/ :

https://public-inbox.org/git/CAP8UFD2MNFjEjrGVyj__d4f95nC=D7csKajYzdtMFkfXKmrixQ@mail.gmail.com/

Thanks!