Re: Rmail mbox-format branch

[Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Experience shows that 21.4 will most probably be followed by a bugfix
> release 21.5, a month or two after 21.4 is out; if that happens, we
> cannot move 22.1 into a pretest before the bugfix release is out.
> Since we cannot know whether 21.4 will need a bugfix release, we will
> wait at least a month or so before we decide, which again doesn't
> allow 22.1 to start a pretest immediately.

What's wrong with using a branch for bugfixes in 21.4?

The point of keeping a pending release on the trunk is to make sure it
gets a lot of testing.  If 21.4 is released, then it's gonna be
reasonably solid, so there seems little point to having it hang around
on the trunk Just In Case; using a branch to fix those bugs that creep
into the release (and which are deemed serious enough to warrant another
minor release) seems quite reasonable.

-Miles
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