bug#62720: 29.0.60; Not easy at all to upgrade :core packages like Eglot

[João Távora]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 8:21 PM Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> wrote:
>
> On 14/04/2023 22:19, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > So Eglot 1.14 is not stable?  Does Eglot has a stable branch on ELPA?
>
> All Eglot development is led on master.
>
> > I meant to include the latest stable release, not an unstable one.
>
> We consider tagged releases (ones that bump the version header) as
> "stable" ones, and all intermediate commits as "unstable". Those are not
> the same kind of "stable" as Emacs releases, obviously.

Exactly this.  When I tag an Eglot release, I check that tests run.  I
run some manual tests and I come to a conclusion as to its stability.
But there is no pretest or "release candidate" or anything like that.
It's not feasible, I don't even know how that would work.
So I make the release, watch for feedback closely the next days or
weeks and fix bugs for the next release.  In the interim I give people
workarounds.

João