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: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 d4e1549: Guard terminal parameter in XTerm mouse mode Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:23:57 +0200 Message-ID: <83fumg6e3m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20161122204222.29398.86534@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20161122204222.DBE712201C5@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83bmx66vkg.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3625cwc.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480004760 1068 195.159.176.226 (24 Nov 2016 16:26:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:26:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 24 17:25:55 2016 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 1c9wqQ-0007pa-Ps for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:25:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40915 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c9wqU-0002aN-9S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:25:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34647) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c9woo-00029n-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:24:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c9wok-0006Yd-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:24:14 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47304) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c9wok-0006YX-61; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:24:10 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4089 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c9woj-0006hT-BS; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:24:09 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:58:28 +0000) 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:209578 Archived-At: > From: Philipp Stephani > Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:58:28 +0000 > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > It's a very annoying and highly visible bug, and the fix is trivial and cannot possibly break anything. > > It wasn't reported until now, was it? So I guess it's only visible > under some conditions that don't happen very often. > > It happens always when selecting text with the mouse in HTerm, I think that happens very often. Perhaps > people just ignore the error message most of the time. Perhaps. But that probably means it isn't urgent to fix, especially if we had this with us for quite some time. > Can you tell since when do we have this bug? If it exists long > enough, I don't think we should do this on the release branch, it goes > against the criteria for bug fixes there. > > What are the criteria? As described here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-10/msg00007.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-10/msg00460.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2016-10/msg00787.html > CONTRIBUTE states > "Release branches […] are mainly > intended for more-conservative changes such as bug fixes. […] > If you are fixing a bug that exists in the current release, be sure to > commit it to the release branch; […]" That's a general policy, but Emacs 25.2 has special rules because we want to put it out the door very soon. > If the actual policy is different, please document it in CONTRIBUTE. I don't think it's right to publish ad-hoc criteria in CONTRIBUTE, that would be confusing to new contributors. > I've seen some talk about bugfix-only releases, but I think the policy should be clearer and better documented > to avoid such discussions. I don't see any good alternative to reading the mailing lists, sorry.