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

Eli Zaretskii [27/Jun  7:56pm +03] wrote:
> I think you underestimate the effort needed to produce the tarball,
> test it and upload it.  Doesn't it take a few hours?

I'm not sure yet because the only time I've done it was the very first
time.  But I noticed several things ripe for scripting, and I think I
can bring it down to ~1h (with most of that time spent waiting).

> How much time do you have to work on Emacs on any given day?

Well, that varies a lot.

>> Maybe backporting *from* Jane Street's branch *to* Savannah's branch
>> would allow us to overcome the problem Stefan describes of not being
>> able to give the fixes enough testing?
>
> Not sure what will this solve.  We still need to be very much involved
> in the examination of the fixes and the decisions to which branch(es)
> to backport them.  This must be a job of the Emacs maintenance team,
> so if Spencer or someone else volunteers to do it, they will need to
> become part of the team and take the responsibility for doing this and
> communicating with the rest of the team as part of the decision what
> to do with each fix.

Right.  My idea is just that this gets us the testing.