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From: | Jim Porter |
Subject: | bug#62509: 30.0.50; Changes to naming for Windows stapshots - PATCH |
Date: | Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:14:34 -0700 |
On 9/12/2023 7:33 PM, Corwin Brust wrote:
From my standpoint, it is challenging to pick the date to use. I do most releases for GNU rather manually, and might take a day or two doing it. Is there information to be gained from knowing the "build start date" (but not time?) that isn't better sourced by git log <REVISION>?
I think so, yes. For those of us close to the development process, the Git SHA is the most-useful bit of info for sure, but thinking back to a couple of years ago before I contributed to Emacs, the date would have been a lot more useful. It would let me see at a glance how new the snapshot is. It would also make it easier to tell users what snapshot to try, e.g. if you're a package author: "Make sure you use the Emacs snapshot from at least YYYY-MM-DD in order to prevent such-and-such bug."
The timestamp of the file itself isn't as useful for this purpose since, as you say, the process is a bit manual and could be a few days after the latest commit.
As for what date exactly to use, I'd say, "Use the CommitDate in either US Eastern time (the FSF's time zone), or possibly UTC."
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