Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Stefan Kangas]

xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
writes:

> Would it be possible to make an exception for built-in packages that
> act as kind of a gateway, like package.el?  It could be developed inside
> the previous major release, and have more frequent minor releases.
> In practice once in a few months should be enough, if at all.

AFAIU, that is what core packages are for.