Re: The emacs-31 branch during the next release cycle

>> >> From: Stefan Monnier via "Emacs development discussions." <[email protected]>
>> [...]
>> >> - After NN.1 is released, I expect much fewer people run the `emacs-NN`
>> >>   branch, so any regression risks remaining undetected before the next
>> >>   (minor) release.  If the regression is detected earlier, it'll likely
>> >>   be detected by someone running `master` and there's a chance that the
>> >>   fix will make it only to `master` if we don't notice the link to the
>> >>   previous bug-fix or don't notice that that previous bug-fix was
>> >>   installed in `emacs-NN`.
>> >
>> > The problems for which we install fixes on the release branch after
>> > NN.1 release come from 2 sources:
>> 
>> Just to clarify: The paragraph I wrote above talks regressions due to
>> new bug-fixes installed on the `emacs-NN` branch, not regressions
>> present in NN.1.
>> 
>> Rereading just now made me realize that it wasn't obvious at all.
>
> No, it wasn't.  But anyway, bugs we fix on a release branch aren't
> limited to regressions since NN-1.x releases, we also fix bugs in
> earlier releases, as long as they are safe to fix.

No, no, I'm really talking about regressions introduced by the bug-fix
patches installed in `emacs-NN`.  IOW about the problems that show up
when what we seemed like a "safe bug-fix" isn't.


=== Stefan