On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 02:47:48PM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > The patch is trivial (attached), so I think this really is about the > mechanics of making the change; for example: > > 1) enabling it on trunk permanently (and disabling it on stable branches) > > 2) tagging a wc that has the patch applied > > 3) committing the patch to a branch and <handwave>arrange for the tag to > incorporate the changes from that branch</handwave>.
4) Encourage people to compile alpha/beta/rc with --enable-maintainer-mode. That would enable the change under discussion, would it not? This also makes sense for other reasons, e.g. errors reported back to us will contain proper backtraces, etc.
