Re: Any chance for a Git v2.1.5 release?

2015-03-11 Thread Kyle J. McKay
. McKay Date: February 24, 2015 09:16:05 PST To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Git Mailing List Subject: Any chance for a Git v2.1.5 release? Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes As you know, I help out with repo.or.cz. Recently the admins have been discussing

Re: Any chance for a Git v2.1.5 release?

2015-02-27 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Kyle J. McKay" On Feb 26, 2015, at 12:54, Junio C Hamano wrote: "Kyle J. McKay" writes: I would like to better understand how the various heads are maintained. I've read MaintNotes and I've got the concepts, but I'm still a little fuzzy on some details. It looks to me like all top

Re: Any chance for a Git v2.1.5 release?

2015-02-26 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Kyle J. McKay" writes: >> After finishing 2.3.0 release, at some point while 'master' is still >> at 2.3.0, something like this would happen: >> >>$ git branch -m maint maint-2.2 >>$ git branch maint master > > So the reason I don't notice force-updates to maint when this happens > is be

Re: Any chance for a Git v2.1.5 release?

2015-02-26 Thread Kyle J. McKay
On Feb 26, 2015, at 12:54, Junio C Hamano wrote: "Kyle J. McKay" writes: I would like to better understand how the various heads are maintained. I've read MaintNotes and I've got the concepts, but I'm still a little fuzzy on some details. It looks to me like all topics still only in pu afte

Re: Any chance for a Git v2.1.5 release?

2015-02-26 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Kyle J. McKay" writes: > I would like to better understand how the various heads are > maintained. I've read MaintNotes and I've got the concepts, but I'm > still a little fuzzy on some details. It looks to me like all topics > still only in pu after master has been updated are then rebased on

Re: Any chance for a Git v2.1.5 release?

2015-02-25 Thread Kyle J. McKay
On Feb 24, 2015, at 21:13, Junio C Hamano wrote: "Kyle J. McKay" writes: I can designate ;-), but I do not think I'd be the right person to maintain or long-term-support it. Are you volunteering to oversee the "LTS team"? I could not promise a team of more than one member. And that would

Re: Any chance for a Git v2.1.5 release?

2015-02-24 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Kyle J. McKay" writes: >> I can designate ;-), but I do not think I'd be the right person to >> maintain or long-term-support it. Are you volunteering to oversee >> the "LTS team"? > > I could not promise a team of more than one member. And that would > not be full-time 24/7 either. Heh. Maki

Re: Any chance for a Git v2.1.5 release?

2015-02-24 Thread Kyle J. McKay
On Feb 24, 2015, at 11:52, Junio C Hamano wrote: Kyle J. McKay writes: Which brings us back to the subject of this email, is there any chance for a v2.1.5 release? ... It appears that the average support lifespan of a Git release from initial release date through last released maintenance u