Consequent CC Mode fix to the release branch or to master?

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Eli.

Whilst fixing bug #59234 (Inappropriate fontification as a type of
function call NSRectFill), I came across inappropriate handling of
whitespace which leads to the Lisp error "Invalid search bound (wrong
side of point)".  This error is likely to occur only rarely, and probably
not in the more used CC Mode modes such as C and C++.

I now have a patch to fix this.  Is it still OK to commit such patches to
the release branch, or would it be preferred to commit it to master?

I also have the actual fix to the above mentioned bug, #59234, which I
intend to commit to the release branch, and one other open bug (an
offshoot from bug #58883) which doesn't yet have a completed patch.

Do you have firm ideas, yet, of when you're going to start the pretest
cycle, such that non-pressing bugs would no longer be wanted in the
release branch?

Thanks!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).