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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::232 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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:235223 Archived-At: On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 05:21, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >>>>>> The RC said Emacs 26.2 was to be released March 27... Part of > > >>>>>> making a release is for people to stop changing that branch. > > >>>>> > > >>>>> Unfortunately, that ship has sailed, since within an hour of RC > > >>>>> release a new commit was pushed to the release branch [...] > > CONTRIBUTE says: > > > > Doc fixes are always considered "safe" -- even when a release branch > > is in feature freeze, it can still receive doc fixes. > > > > I don't see anything there about not pushing after an RC is made > There's no need to say anything else, since an RC should be tarred after all its changes are pushed and tagged. That didn't happen this time by omission. We all make mistakes at times. Ah, I had initially thought you meant the unfortunate mistake was on part of the person/people pushing to emacs-26 after the RC. Makes more sense this way.