From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug #29083: Is it OK to add a new function to the emacs-26 branch? Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 21:43:36 +0200 Message-ID: <834lqdss2f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20171101112144.GB5276@ACM> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509565465 3756 195.159.176.226 (1 Nov 2017 19:44:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 19:44:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "John Wiegley" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 01 20:44:21 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e9yvz-0000Xj-VP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2017 20:44:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57485 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9yw7-0001Vh-9v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38111) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9yvb-0001VP-6c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:43:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9yva-0003a1-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39201) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9yvV-0003WQ-13; Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:43:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2419 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e9yvU-00073b-7c; Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:43:48 -0400 In-reply-to: (johnw@gnu.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219852 Archived-At: > From: "John Wiegley" > Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 10:05:49 -0700 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >>>>> "AM" == Alan Mackenzie writes: > > AM> However, the OP has requested that a function which actually displays this > AM> name be put into CC Mode. Would it still be OK to do this on the emacs-26 > AM> branch, or is this branch now closed for such things? > > I think that since we're now prepping for release with pretests out there, > it's become too late. Nothing stops us from getting a 26.2 out the door soon > after, though. That's true, but OTOH a new function that doesn't affect anything (because it isn't called from any place) cannot do much harm. So I tend to allow this exception.