Releasing small, not critical features as bugfixes

[emacsq <laszlomail@protonmail.com>]

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I checked if show-paren can show context from off screen and it can, in Emacs 29:

*** New user option 'show-paren-context-when-offscreen'.

When non-nil, if the point is in a closing delimiter and the opening

delimiter is offscreen, shows some context around the opening
delimiter in the echo area.

Emacs 28.1 was just released. Judging from the previous release history Emacs 29 is 1.5/2 years away.

Such small, useful improvements which don't cause critical errors could be released along with Emacs 28 bugfixes, so users can get them earlier, instead of waiting for them for two years.

Of course, there are bigger, more complex improvements which have to be tested thoroughly, but features like the above could be released sooner with the bugfixes, because they are pretty safe improvements.

Or maybe there could be a branch like emacs-future where these small useful improvements could be put, so there is the stable banch (28), this low risk future branch (between 28 and 29) and the bleeding edge (29).

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