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

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:21:21 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.emacsen,gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Eli Zaretskii [27/Jun  9:22am +03] wrote:
> That's a wrong conclusion, at least IME.  The release cycle for NN+1
> major release will only start once we decide that there are no longer
> important problems in emacs-NN to justify another NN.x release.  As
> long as that decision is not made, the next release cycle will not
> start.

This necessary condition for cutting the new release branch definitely
needs writing down.  I'll include it in my docs patch.