From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about commit policy Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:11:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87pp4rj1zd.fsf@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434723093 7696 80.91.229.3 (19 Jun 2015 14:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 19 16:11:25 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 1Z5x0s-0007fA-QB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:11:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58305 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5x0r-0007ji-W0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45544) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5x0e-0007jc-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:11:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5x0b-0007fm-1E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:37353) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5x0a-0007eq-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:11:04 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0AsEwA731xV//lyoWxcgxCEAoVVuzcJh0sEAgKBPDkUAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEBAQYCAR+LOoUFB4QtBZ8XkhSCFIFFI4QUIoJ4AQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0AsEwA731xV//lyoWxcgxCEAoVVuzcJh0sEAgKBPDkUAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEBAQYCAR+LOoUFB4QtBZ8XkhSCFIFFI4QUIoJ4AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="127414763" Original-Received: from 108-161-114-249.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([108.161.114.249]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 19 Jun 2015 10:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0407966125; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:11:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87pp4rj1zd.fsf@gmx.net> (Stephen Berman's message of "Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:51:02 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:187318 Archived-At: > 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). Stefan