Re: branching stable/2.22?

2020-08-23 Thread Jonas Hahnfeld
Am Sonntag, den 23.08.2020, 14:59 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: > Jonas Hahnfeld writes: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to ask what it would take in principle to branch stable/2.22 > > and what others think about this. > > I don't see that this is a good point of time. > > There has been an

branching stable/2.22?

2020-08-23 Thread Jonas Hahnfeld
Hi all, I'd like to ask what it would take in principle to branch stable/2.22 and what others think about this. Personally I'm convinced that creating the branch and only picking bug fixes from master is the only guaranteed way to stabilize. Now you might say that there were only few unstable

Re: branching stable/2.22?

2020-08-23 Thread David Kastrup
Jonas Hahnfeld writes: > Hi all, > > I'd like to ask what it would take in principle to branch stable/2.22 > and what others think about this. I don't see that this is a good point of time. There has been an influx of badly tested changes to the build system and directory setup and the web

Re: branching stable/2.22?

2020-08-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 1:58 PM Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: > I'd like to ask what it would take in principle to branch stable/2.22 > and what others think about this. > > Personally I'm convinced that creating the branch and only picking bug > fixes from master is the only guaranteed way to stabilize.

Re: branching stable/2.22?

2020-08-23 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Hi, (Sorry about the strange reply style.) On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 1:58 PM Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: > I'd like to ask what it would take in principle to branch stable/2.22 > and what others think about this. > > Personally I'm convinced that creating the branch and only picking bug > fixes from

Re: branching stable/2.22?

2020-08-23 Thread Dan Eble
On Aug 23, 2020, at 17:44, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > At least four areas are currently under flux: Python scripts, the build > system, Guile 2 support, and fonts (Owen's project), and I don't see that > master is coming any close to stability. I think we are better with focusing > on these