From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merges from release branch Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:58:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83eeackzsx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8d0be260-7b15-0b48-42e5-e5a4cc203e54@yandex.ru> <837dg4n1ix.fsf@gnu.org> <834kb8mzk1.fsf@gnu.org> <874kb8mv9q.fsf@gmail.com> <83tuj8ldgi.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1ecl9i0.fsf@gmail.com> <83lf4kl78v.fsf@gnu.org> <87eeacl32h.fsf@gmail.com> <83h7f8l2kd.fsf@gnu.org> <83fsuskzyj.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6355"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, danflscr@gmail.com, theo@thornhill.no, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, larsi@gnus.org, sir@cmpwn.com To: joaotavora@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 29 17:59:49 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mKNDo-0001SM-63 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:59:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35278 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKNDn-0006cn-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 11:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKNDA-0005NI-Jb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 11:59:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKND8-00057x-Bd; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 11:59:06 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2362 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKND7-0001IN-TS; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 11:59:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83fsuskzyj.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:55:32 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:273418 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:55:32 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: philipk@posteo.net, danflscr@gmail.com, theo@thornhill.no, > emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, > larsi@gnus.org, sir@cmpwn.com > > > Of course I wonder if there's something special in Emacs it that makes it > > somehow vulnerable to more commonly found integration strategies, or, > > alternatively, if the danger you're imagining is something to worry about > > for any other projects that utilizes them. > > The discussions at the time were long, detailed, and raised several > loosely-related issues, all of them in the context of what to say in > the document we were composing that described the recommended > procedures. I don't remember the details, sorry. Once we understood > the issues and made the decision, there was no need for me to keep > those details in memory. Maybe David or someone else remembers; if > not, there's no way around the need to read those discussions. Oh, and the only aspect in those discussions that was specific to Emacs, AFAIR, was that we have 2 branches that diverge very quickly.