Re: tickets migrated to gitlab

[John Stoffel]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Diekhans <markd@ucsc.edu> writes:

> John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> writes:
>> Maybe tag main with 'vm-8.3.0a' then?  Get more people testing and
>> more releases happening.  I'll get to testing later this week.

> I was never clear if the `a' and `b' were alpha and beta or something
> else in the LP releases.

I agree.  

> Allowing for only one alpha seems wrong.

Agree.

> I come from old-school, with a release branch being made and going
> through alpha and beta releases with tags marking them.

Agree.

> Although, many git projects have moved away from this and keep
> main branch release-quality and just cut releases off of it.
> This seems attractive.

Ideally... but then we need to put some tags on our main branch as
well, and there are none, at least not when I last looked a few days ago.

> We can discuss this and look for examples.  Right now, lets get main
> to something we think is approaching release quality.

So we already have some known issues, and I'm trying to cut down my
.vm file to see if I can replicate it, but in general VM is a bit
noiser in the status line, especially about:

       Attributes updates on X messages

which shows up *all* the time.  But doesn't seem to be useful to know
about, since they don't seem to be saved any where, since if you save
a mailbox and immediately re-visit it, it's still saying "updating
attributes..." which is just annoying.