Re: Release procedure.

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Well, but we _did_ branch, and there is a complete lack of directions
> about what the branch is supposed to be for.  Previously it was agreed
> that we'd use the trunk after branching for merging in multi-tty and
> emacs-unicode-2, and use the branch for the 22.x series.
>
> At the current point of time, however, it appears like both trunk and
> release branch are not supposed to be worked upon except by special
> notice, and then both are synchronously updated.
>
> It does not make sense, and it makes it impossible for anybody to do
> serious work.

I can't confidently assert that there's a complete lack of direction
about what the branch is for, because it's always possible that there
was such direction and I simply didn't see it (although a permanent
file in the tree would be better than a mailing list post, for that).

But, just as a data point: I'm in the same boat with David.  For
whatever reason, I also do not understand what the branch is for.