From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Your latest commits on emacs-25 Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 17:40:33 +0300 Message-ID: <83vb3c738e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ega5bbzh.fsf@gnu.org> <20160420012845.GA4548@holos.localdomain> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1461163258 25126 80.91.229.3 (20 Apr 2016 14:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mark Oteiza Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 20 16:40:51 2016 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 1astJD-0001jF-0l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:40:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50480 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1astJC-0007lR-CN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33441) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1astJ7-0007iG-AY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:40:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1astJ4-0001Qs-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:40:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45460) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1astJ3-0001Qa-LB; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:40:41 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3349 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1astJ2-0002L2-Ub; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:40:41 -0400 In-reply-to: <20160420012845.GA4548@holos.localdomain> (message from Mark Oteiza on Tue, 19 Apr 2016 21:28:45 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:203120 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 21:28:45 -0400 > From: Mark Oteiza > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > AIUI emacs-25 is fine for safe changes; these are small fixes which had > patches on the list for some time (with the exception of aa0d83a, though > it is the same kind of fix as the other in rect.el). If this is not the > case, please advise. > > There has been much churn over what the purpose of the branches are, the > rationale of which was neither explained nor clarified on the relevant > thread on which I specifically recall mentioning what the status quo was > and asking why it was being changed. AFAIU, the policy about the emacs-25 branch was stated by John here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-03/msg00648.html It reads: I'd like to begin the period of final stabilization toward a 25.1 release before the summer (which would officially mean June 21st). This means that starting now-ish, the only commits that should appear against emacs-25 are those that address a serious problem, or are obviously safe and an improvement over something we don't want to appear in the release (typos, missing an option from a list of alternatives, etc). When in doubt about the relevance of a change, please ask here. Otherwise, changes outside this scope, but still intended for 25.x, should be queued in master toward 25.2, with some indication that it is to be cherry-picked into emacs-25 once the release has been cut. HTH