Eli Zaretskii [27/Jun 7:56pm +03] wrote: > I think you underestimate the effort needed to produce the tarball, > test it and upload it. Doesn't it take a few hours?
I'm not sure yet because the only time I've done it was the very first time. But I noticed several things ripe for scripting, and I think I can bring it down to ~1h (with most of that time spent waiting). > How much time do you have to work on Emacs on any given day? Well, that varies a lot. >> Maybe backporting *from* Jane Street's branch *to* Savannah's branch >> would allow us to overcome the problem Stefan describes of not being >> able to give the fixes enough testing? > > Not sure what will this solve. We still need to be very much involved > in the examination of the fixes and the decisions to which branch(es) > to backport them. This must be a job of the Emacs maintenance team, > so if Spencer or someone else volunteers to do it, they will need to > become part of the team and take the responsibility for doing this and > communicating with the rest of the team as part of the decision what > to do with each fix. Right. My idea is just that this gets us the testing. -- Sean Whitton
