Re: Branch freezing for release

[Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 03:04, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:03:28 -0400
> > Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
> >       Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> >
> > > > Though perhaps there is some fuzziness in CONTRIBUTE over the exact
> > > > meaning of "is in the very last stages of its pretest".
> > >
> > > If someone can suggest a better way of saying that, please do.  The
> > > text does say soon afterwards "if you are unsure, ask".
> >
> > Maybe it helps to spell out a number?
>
> I'd hesitate to fix the number at 90 (or any other specific number),
> because sometimes .90 is not close enough.  We could say .100, but
> AFAIR that happened only once or twice in the history, so it would not
> be helpful.  The problem here is that the number is not determined by
> how close we think we are to the release, its correlation with that is
> very weak.

Yes, the only way to know is to follow emacs-devel, so for someone who
doesn't follow the list, asking at anything above .90 is the only safe
recommendation, right?