Re: release process analysis

2020-09-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I think the next improvement to the release process should engineer > around human behavior. Here, the human behavior is, most folks avoid > pre-release testing, and then jump right to the release. > ... > It has been my experience that once you perform the minor version > r

Re: release process analysis

2020-09-29 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Paul, Am 29.09.2020 um 22:56 schrieb Paul Eggert : > On 9/29/20 12:00 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: >> This is not correct: there is continous integration on Solaris >> for quite some time now > > Yes, and I used that with this patch. Unfortunately the failure mode occurs > only when libsigse

Re: release process analysis

2020-09-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:28 PM Bruno Haible wrote: > > It's a pity that grep-2.5 was released with such a mistake. > ... > How can we avoid such things? Just my 2-cents, but I think the technical controls are good. You have a CI pipeline, and you are testing on multiple platforms. You are also

Re: release process analysis

2020-09-29 Thread Paul Eggert
On 9/29/20 12:00 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: This is not correct: there is continous integration on Solaris for quite some time now Yes, and I used that with this patch. Unfortunately the failure mode occurs only when libsigsegv is installed 3rd-party on Solaris, which was not the situation

Re: Patches to aid the compilation of gnulib modules with MSVC

2020-09-29 Thread Paul Eggert
On 9/29/20 9:03 AM, sibi wrote: I would like to contribute few patches to gnulib that would help compilation with MSVC. Could you please guide me on how to proceed? Thanks. If they're nontrivial, you'll need to sign some copyright papers, which I can arrange to have sent to you if you like.

Patches to aid the compilation of gnulib modules with MSVC

2020-09-29 Thread sibi
Hi there, I would like to contribute few patches to gnulib that would help compilation with MSVC. Could you please guide me on how to proceed? Thank You,Sibi Siddharthan 

Re: release process analysis

2020-09-29 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Bruno, Am 29.09.2020 um 04:28 schrieb Bruno Haible : >- we don't have continuous integration on Solaris, This is not correct: there is continous integration on Solaris for quite some time now and status changes are reported automatically to grep-de...@gnu.org as well: https://buildfarm.o