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[Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 4b347fe: Clarify that doc fixes are okay in featu


From: Karl Fogel
Subject: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 4b347fe: Clarify that doc fixes are okay in feature freeze
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 21:03:30 +0000 (UTC)

branch: emacs-25
commit 4b347fe5368aedc161e172bd110e05e2f7f37463
Author: Karl Fogel <address@hidden>
Commit: Karl Fogel <address@hidden>

    Clarify that doc fixes are okay in feature freeze
    
    * CONTRIBUTE (branches): Explain that doc fixes are always safe, even
    on a release branch in feature freeze.  Tweak wording of paragraph
    after that to avoid a misleading contrast.
---
 CONTRIBUTE |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE
index a02acad..c12f0cc 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTE
+++ b/CONTRIBUTE
@@ -191,9 +191,11 @@ branch later by the gitmerge function.
 
 Documentation fixes (in doc strings, in manuals, and in comments)
 should always go to the release branch, if the documentation to be
-fixed exists and is relevant to the release-branch codebase.
+fixed exists and is relevant to the release-branch codebase.  Doc
+fixes are always considered "safe" -- even when a release branch is in
+feature freeze, it can still receive doc fixes.
 
-However, if you know that the change will be difficult to merge to the
+When you know that the change will be difficult to merge to the
 master (e.g., because the code on master has changed a lot), you can
 apply the change to both master and branch yourself.  It could also
 happen that a change is cherry-picked from master to the release



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