Re: CONTRIBUTE and where to commit bug fixes

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

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>Follow the list with enough dedication to know when we're in deep freeze
>and when we're not.

:-)  Yeah -- I follow the list with light-to-medium dedication, and I usually can't tell whether we're in deep freeze.

(I realize your point above was sarcastic; I'm just agreeing with the sarcasm.)

>Maybe rather than document the way we work in more detail (which won't
>really help solve the problem, obviously), we could change the way we
>work to make it more clear:
>
>- when we start the "new major release" process, we create a new branch
>  (e.g. emacs-27).  Nothing new here.
>- when we enter the "deep freeze" process, rather than announce it and
>  hope people will know about it, we create yet another branch
>  (e.g. emacs-27.1).
>
>Then the rule can be documented more simply in the doc:
>- master is for new features.
>- emacs-NN is for any bug and doc fix.
>- emacs-NN.MM only takes bug fixes for regressions and requires explicit
>  agreement from the maintainers.
>
>This also solves the problem of where to install non-regression bug
>fixes when we're in deep freeze.

+1 -- nice solution all around.

Best regards,
-Karl