From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 116086 invoked by alias); 2 Dec 2016 15:57:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 116074 invoked by uid 89); 2 Dec 2016 15:57:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:57:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Carlos O'Donell CC: Siddhesh Poyarekar , Jochen Hein , GNU C Library Subject: Re: glibc 2.25 development --- 46 days to freeze. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <21b86aae-e2b2-2bc6-e689-0597e76bbfad@redhat.com> <8360nom0gl.fsf@echidna.jochen.org> <4eb2bd88-1f09-8691-0493-0fd2f7958b4f@gotplt.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00055.txt.bz2 On Fri, 2 Dec 2016, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > Is this just a "general warning?" The release process does not say to use > annotated tags. We made that mistake once and then it was removed from the > release documentation. Yes, it's a general warning based on experience. Annotated tags should be used for releases themselves, but not otherwise (in particular not for translation snapshots). -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com