MaintNotes: http://gmane is no longer with us
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -30,21 +30,29 @@ becomes calmer before sending such a reminder.
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The list archive is available at a few public sites:
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- http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/
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+ http://public-inbox.org/git/
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http://marc.info/?l=git
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http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/
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For those who prefer to read it over NNTP:
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- nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git
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+ nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git
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-When you point at a message in a mailing list archive, using
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-gmane is often the easiest to follow by readers, like this:
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+is still available. An alternative
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- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/27/focus=217
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+ nntp://news.public-inbox.org/inbox.comp.version-control.git
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-as it also allows people who subscribe to the mailing list as gmane
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-newsgroup to "jump to" the article.
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+will become usable once it catches up with old messages.
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+When you point at a message in a mailing list archive, using its
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+message ID is often the most robust (if not very friendly) way to do
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+so, like this:
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+ http://public-inbox.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0504150753440.7211@ppc970.osdl.org
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+Often these web interfaces accept the message ID with enclosing <>
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+stripped (like the above example to point at one of the most important
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+message in the Git list).
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Some members of the development community can sometimes be found on
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the #git and #git-devel IRC channels on Freenode. Their logs are
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four dotted decimal, named after the feature release they are updates
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to (e.g. "1.8.5.1" was the first maintenance release for "1.8.5"
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feature release). These days, maintenance releases are named by
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-incrementing the last digit of three-dotted decimal name (e.g. "2.8.3"
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-is the third maintenance release for the "2.8" series).
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+incrementing the last digit of three-dotted decimal name (e.g. "2.9.3"
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+is the third maintenance release for the "2.9" series).
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New features never go to the 'maint' branch. This branch is also
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merged into "master" to propagate the fixes forward as needed.