From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs release schedule and Akihito's abdication Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:35:51 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1532723788 30886 195.159.176.226 (27 Jul 2018 20:36:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:36:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (darwin) Cc: Emacs Development To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 27 22:36:24 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fj9TM-0007ww-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 22:36:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42888 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fj9VS-0004RL-TP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:38:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43641) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fj9Ta-0003qb-Dg for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:36:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fj9TZ-00047m-HS for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:36:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37361) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fj9TV-00046p-8h; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from auth1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.227]:52587) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fj9TV-0002tX-2R; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D31720DB5; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:36:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:36:32 -0400 X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from localhost (76-234-69-149.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [76.234.69.149]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D792CE45C9; Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:36:31 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:20:38 -0700") Mail-Followup-To: Paul Eggert , Emacs Development X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:227877 Archived-At: >>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert writes: PE> Should we plan for a new release around March 2019, if only a point PE> release? Otherwise, a lot of Japanese text will stop working, due to the PE> expected abdication of Emperor Akihito in April 2019, and the use of a new PE> character in Japanese-format dates. This differs from ordinary Unicode PE> updates, since the new character is likely to be quite common pretty PE> quickly, at least in Japanese text. The new character will not be PE> announced until late February 2019, unfortunately. I think a patch to the release branch would be reasonable for that purpose; I wonder how long it will take for that release to make it into all channels. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2