Re: Next release from master

[Óscar Fuentes]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

[snip]

> OPTION #3
>
>   25.1 is developed on emacs-25
>   26.1 is concurrently developed on master
>
>   This means dropping point releases, except for back-patching severe bug
>   fixes onto emacs-25.

OPTION #4

emacs-25 is released, the branch remains open for bugfixes. All other
changes go into master. Once emacs-25 has accumulated a reasonable
number of bug fixes, or they are important enough, emacs 25.2 is
released.

I think that this method is easy enough to understand and does not drop
point releases.

OTOH, some people might be upset because new features need to wait for
the next major release, but IMHO point releases should be limited to
quality improvements.

[snip]