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> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:05:19 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> I've created the emacs-27 release branch, and bumped Emacs version on
> master to 28.0.50.  A pretest of Emacs 27.1 will follow some time
> soon, I hope.
> 
> Please from now on push safe bugfixes and documentation fixes to the
> release branch; all the other development should happen on master.
> When in doubt whether a bugfix is safe enough, please ask.

I see that people continue fixing bugs on master, disregarding what I
said above.  Please fix bugs on the release branch instead.  In
particular, documentation bugs should always be fixed on the release
branch as long as it is active.

Thanks.