<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;"><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;">On 20 Feb 2024, at 10:14, Markus Neteler via grass-dev <<a href="mailto:grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org">grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br><br><br>In fact the slowest CI run determines how much time I have to wait<br>with each release step (i.e., editing VERSION file, wait 1:30hs, do<br>some steps, wait 1:30hs, create tarball, wait 1:30hs, reset VERSION<br>file, wait 1:30hs ... which is a pain).<br><br></blockquote><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;">I agree this is a case where we have limited ourself too much, with all those </span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;">required 1.5 hrs tests, approval, etc. (not even [skip ci] would work) . What you</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;">would need is a (ideally) direct commit access or at least “Rebase and merge”</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;">option to merge (thus enable a number of commits to be merged at one time,</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;">as opposed to "Squash and merge”).</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;"><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;">We must find a solution to improve this situation for preparing releases, I</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;">wouldn’t mind temporary lifting necessary constraints.</span></body></html>