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> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
> Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 16:33:37 -0400
> 
> If we have another branch (other than unicode) for major changes,
> then we will not really focus on the trunk, methinks.

I agree that this danger would become very real.

> So I think we should do like we did for 21.1 and like most projects
> do AFAIK, which is to say "freeze", spend some months debugging
> and then (and only then) make a new branch (which is the release branch).

Agreed: feature-freeze of the next release should be something we do
soon.