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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 29.3 released
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:38:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7b19hx8.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875xx9f4ol.fsf@gmx.de>

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

>> Would it be possible to modify the Tramp revision on the release
>> branch so that it would not have the "-pre" suffix, and otherwise
>> leave intact the procedure by which you collect and merge fixes to the
>> release branch? ...
>
> It would be possible. I could change the Tramp version in the release
> branch to the next anticipated release number. So I could change it now
> to "2.6.3.29.4". However, I see at least two problems:
>
> - The Tramp version doesn't guarantee any longer uniqueness. Tramp
>   2.6.3.29.4 would differ today and tomorrow. That was the reason to use
>   such an ambiguous version like 2.6.3-pre.
>
> - We might run into problems on ELPA. A user sees a builtin version of
>   Tramp 2.6.3.29.4, but in order to fix something for her there is also
>   Tramp 2.6.2.9 (let's say). I fear we'll have a hard time to explain,
>   that 2.6.2.9 is newer than 2.6.3.29.4.

May it be an option to follow what Org mode does?
We have a stable branch that we periodically tag as a bugfix release
(weekly, if there are new commits).
Only tagged bugfix releases are merged to Emacs upstream.
The same bugfix releases go to ELPA.

> (FWIW, I don't understand yet why 29.3 was such an emergency that it was
> released w/o any warning in advance.)

CVE.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
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  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-26 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-24 14:14 Emacs 29.3 released Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-24 17:52 ` Corwin Brust
2024-03-24 18:46   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-24 19:36     ` Corwin Brust
2024-03-24 19:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-24 19:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-27  5:54         ` Corwin Brust
2024-03-24 18:48 ` Michael Albinus
2024-03-24 19:29   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-24 20:10     ` Michael Albinus
2024-03-24 20:20       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-26  8:48         ` Michael Albinus
2024-03-26 12:46           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-26 14:28             ` Michael Albinus
2024-03-26 14:38               ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2024-03-26 17:50                 ` Michael Albinus
2024-03-26 18:01                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-03-26 18:48                     ` Michael Albinus
2024-03-26 19:35               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-27  8:27                 ` Michael Albinus
2024-03-27 12:42                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-27 14:07                     ` Michael Albinus
2024-03-27 16:42                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-27 17:35                         ` Michael Albinus
2024-04-03 12:03                           ` Michael Albinus
2024-04-03 12:36                             ` Robert Pluim
2024-04-03 15:01                               ` Michael Albinus
2024-04-03 12:51                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-03 14:56                               ` Michael Albinus
2024-04-04 12:25                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-04 12:40                                   ` Michael Albinus
2024-04-04 17:46                                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-03-27 15:15                     ` Corwin Brust
2024-03-26 15:32   ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-03-26 18:42     ` Michael Albinus
2024-04-06 15:45 ` Lynn Winebarger
2024-04-06 16:09   ` Eli Zaretskii

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