From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Starting the Emacs 27 release cycle Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:30:35 -0800 Message-ID: <871rty46x0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <83r21yttok.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="195958"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 23 22:31:39 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iYd0F-000opM-G3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 22:31:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32874 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iYd0D-0000fV-Sm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:31:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57180) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iYczc-0000fP-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:31:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iYczY-0005Di-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:30:59 -0500 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:41100 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iYczY-0005Ca-5r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:30:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iYczT-000nrO-8C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 22:30:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:tPjF5Hq1aR8xZ8AXAsinEolFqqs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:242663 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > I'm planning on cutting the emacs-27 release branch in a week or so. > If someone has plans for changes that must be done before that, so > that they end up in Emacs 27.1, please make it happen till then, or > ask here for an extension. After the branch is cut, only bugfixes > will be allowed on the release branch, per our usual practices (see > CONTRIBUTE). A few months ago I made changes to Gnus so that non-ascii group names (which used to mostly stay encoded) were mostly decoded. But I preserved the original odd encoding in Gnus' persistence files, so that developers could move back and forth between Emacs versions. For the 27.1 release I'd like to use Gnus' upgrade mechanism to switch to properly-encoded persistence files. The mechanism includes a prompt to the user, so they'll be aware of what happened, and it will only affect Gnus users with non-ascii group names. But it would mean that those users couldn't switch back to Emacs 26 without seeing encoding weirdness. Hope that's okay... Eric