From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about commit policy Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:17:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87d20riv7r.fsf@gmx.net> References: <87pp4rj1zd.fsf@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434727077 11548 80.91.229.3 (19 Jun 2015 15:17:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 19 17:17:50 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5y2y-0000NZ-UI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:17:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58629 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5y2y-0006h5-2G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37698) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5y2k-0006eQ-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:17:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5y2g-0006I6-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.22]:61457) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5y2f-0006Hn-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:17:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rosalinde ([89.245.121.189]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M1jKo-1YrKbL1zn0-00tkeh; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:17:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:11:01 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:KhI4K0wyumtd2NLiFvMPeSOn58xu3y9KfooRdAHonxCDsBVmqyo /R/Fr3ozo5g7AJWiqFBrPvOAxc5ywc66TH2RyORIDt3TBuY6F6ho73aqdJ8BefBk2Pm7gT9 PLQj5Vt2Qme0/ZngJHv7dNylTZVboTc0cB6x+KTH6pNBRkFDtq8amGXwQuoXdHlewi7wXMD zr6Wxdn70p3lKqrUJKCGw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:s4uLNkSLQiE=:5/CFnhfMPeHC7Vix75MCMR wnVCHcnNezlAeWoFrKJuN7dMKjwbYOO7pL43zaW4kNrsFEphKiIUBq75zLh/N4GAGAhBwSf7r AU9LO2QPGzp/8mpsyY6WkCV/hIpnHlwjzRnuLI5Yq9Lf40QnkOpvWaF58L9AXIZj9fJeQ9c99 1oTz2CYTzU6rX1JPx7sAvtZQzvqLznYIT38D+Y/z4kKK39zGfGBGnA+wc0Nm4RjKVBKu8blhd dLvqf0cV7V6kAwAZqXJWyLjEimNzX1Eodg9HBL6zDW42TG0/SZl5CDaz6C7acmRzF2GuiMUg6 OFd2JgqWGAP3X98rVgJoVe3hSyepwuI0q3AKR6LSBj68+I7EZkkwG+DmqHQuJL1cb+dJxVRon 6eBrx2dTlPa+sZ0oukAkm0B9c0+VWypHXicZkTRtrdL6yrrxSkNgaJp2wiyzw6i61lkvKZAho IIC+9zKu28f5DRfyMUqIaRanB8Ds/gWbvVgpRKK4eRa36u+0WhxZv2OVhojwHyAZWAHVFuoQ1 JedyZsq6+wVPM/Dy9SUFTxkJWk5MAhLtsgR20pi7bfCQo2nOc+IUZiOxM+4BLdcLefEodmJdn o2EEO8O0VY7M/ynljvSvjfqRXKfyzWY6ElCIKQuxT4cYJSVewe2750ZgigjFHKYgFPBsuCAOz 8HUbd1RkS+WhSIllGw19cKakSNb2MSsFxBAeP02b/BUtBnSLEzi1p7lELYUVLeV5h1bM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187320 Archived-At: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:11:01 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I haven't committed any changes or followed the lists very closely for a >> while, so I'm not up to speed and need clarification. I want to commit >> a couple of bug fixes for todo-mode.el; the bugs exist on both emacs-24 >> and master, so should I commit to emac-24? CONTRIBUTE says yes, but >> since AFAICS there has only been one commit to emacs-24 since the >> release but many bug fix commits to master (maybe all new bugs, I >> haven't checked), I'm not sure what the current policy is. > > You can commit your bugfixes to emacs-24 (but they have to be 100% > obviously safe), but it's not super important. There's no plan to make > a new release from the `emacs-24' branch, so the only scenario where > we'll make use of it, is some kind of big security hole or something > which creates an urgent need for a new release (with very little > pretesting, if any). Thanks. They're safe fixes, so I committed them to emacs-24; hope Someone=E2=84=A2 will merge them to master soon ;-) Steve Berman