Re: Consequent CC Mode fix to the release branch or to master?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:00:49 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> Hello, Eli.
> 
> Whilst fixing bug #59234 (Inappropriate fontification as a type of
> function call NSRectFill), I came across inappropriate handling of
> whitespace which leads to the Lisp error "Invalid search bound (wrong
> side of point)".  This error is likely to occur only rarely, and probably
> not in the more used CC Mode modes such as C and C++.
> 
> I now have a patch to fix this.  Is it still OK to commit such patches to
> the release branch, or would it be preferred to commit it to master?

It depends on the patch.  Please show it, so I could have an idea of
what it entails.

> I also have the actual fix to the above mentioned bug, #59234, which I
> intend to commit to the release branch, and one other open bug (an
> offshoot from bug #58883) which doesn't yet have a completed patch.
> 
> Do you have firm ideas, yet, of when you're going to start the pretest
> cycle, such that non-pressing bugs would no longer be wanted in the
> release branch?

I hope we will have the first pretest in a week or so.