Re: git issues/bugs - is there an alert process?

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:44:13AM -0700, funeeldy wrote:

quoted

Is there any way for me to sign up to get alerts for serious bugs discovered
in a version of git?

You can read the release notes; minor versions are always bugfix
releases, and important bugfixes are backported to them. If you read
only the [ANNOUNCE] messages on git@vger, you will see new releases.

I seem to recall we have an announce-only mailing list, and somebody set
up an rss feed, but I don't remember the details. Maybe somebody else
does, or you can find it via google.

Well said.

Also it seems that we haven't had a need to alert for serious bugs that
often ;-). Certainly this particular one is not a "serious" bug, but
merely a failure in tutorial documents at most.

I am however worried about the rate we see minor regressions on 'master'
post 1.7.5, which seems to suggest that people on this list are getting a
bit complacent than they should be and perhaps not testing 'next' but are
on 'master'.

The promise of 'master' always being more stable than any released version
depends on competent testers and users using the 'next' version for their
day to day work.

Thanks.