[mosh-devel] Mosh 1.4.0 is available on GitHub

Alex Chernyakhovsky alex at achernya.com
Thu Oct 27 22:47:11 EDT 2022


I don't think we should un-push the tag. I also don't think it's worth
rev'ing the version over the changelog? But I'd definitely rev the version
if we think we need to include it.

Sincerely,
-Alex

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 10:42 PM Keith Winstein <keithw at cs.stanford.edu>
wrote:

> Thanks Ben. I didn't realize we had pushed an unsigned tag already. I
> guess... my tentative thought would be let's un-push the "mosh-1.4.0" tag
> since I'd rather maintain past practice and have that be a signed tag
> anyway. Unless you think this will cause lots of problems (but I don't
> think it will). I don't think we need to rev the version number unless you
> do.
>
> And then I think sure, please do what you think is right with the
> ChangeLog and the debian/changelog however you prefer, and then I can tag
> and sign that and we can cut the source tarball from there. Sorry for the
> last-minute friction here.
>
> -Keith
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 7:14 PM Benjamin Barenblat <bbarenblat at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, at  8:33 PM -0700, Keith Winstein wrote:
>> > (1) Should we update the ChangeLog file for the source release? It looks
>> > like you (and achin?) already wrote text for it.
>>
>> I completely forgot about the changelog. Yes, we should update that.
>> What do you think – should we update the changelog and push a 1.4.1 tag,
>> or should we update the changelog and replace the existing 1.4.0 tag
>> with a new one that includes the changelog update?
>>
>> > (2) Should I make the final 1.4.0 debian/changelog entry (probably
>> > including the same bullet points as we'll put into ChangeLog) or do you
>> > want to make a PR for that?
>>
>> I can take care of the Debian work. Debian generally prefers to keep
>> upstream changelog entries out of debian/changelog – debian/changelog is
>> supposed to be a changelog for the packaging, not the package. But I’ll
>> make sure the Mosh changelog is included in /usr/share/doc/mosh.
>>
>> > (3) In the past the release announcement email named/credited the
>> "primary
>> > developer and release manager" -- what do you want it to say this time?
>> > (I.e who should be credited and in what order?)
>>
>> For developers, it looks like cgull, Anders, Alex, and I all contributed
>> over 100 lines of diff to Mosh since the last release. It’s an arbitrary
>> cutoff, but it seems as good as any to me. I think cgull should probably
>> go first on the list, since they were making active contributions until
>> 2021.
>>
>> As for release manager, I think that’s Alex. He was definitely the
>> forcing function here. :)
>>
>
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