Re: Start of Emacs 30 release cycle

[Stephen Berman]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:47:24 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:32:21 +0200
>>
>> On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:44:48 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> > I've created the emacs-30 release branch, which will be used to
>> > release the Emacs 30.x series.  Changes installed on this branch
>> > should be bugfixes that do not modify too low-level code, and thus
>> > don't risk destabilizing the codebase we have on that branch now.  All
>> > the other changes, including new features, should be installed on
>> > master, as usual.  If in doubt whether a particular change should be
>> > installed on master or on the release branch, please ask here.
>>
>> Can the patches for wid-edit.el in bug#69942 and bug#70594 still be
>> installed on the emacs-30 branch?  In particular, the patch in bug#70594
>> fixes (or, as I see it, completes) commit 91333dacfa1, which is on the
>> emacs-30 branch.
>
> Given the efforts it took me to get any responses to repeated pings in
> discussing those bugs, it would be justified for me to say NO.

In case you've forgotten, I responded numerous times, including finding
shortcomings in previous patches of mine and correcting them (and in
another case (bug#69941) even withdrawing my patch as unsuitable).  I
appreciate that Mauro has more familiarity and experience with the
widget code than I do, but maybe he just doesn't have time for it now.

>                                                                 (One
> of the two bugs still doesn't have a consensus about what to install,
> AFAIU.)  But I'm willing to give people one more chance.  I think it'd
> also be good to see the patches themselves, since we've seen them so
> long ago.

Here's the patch for bug#69942:

txtZNFmZZzWO_.txt
Description: widget-unselected face patch

And here's the patch for bug#70594:

txtDlqqKjtlOn.txt
Description: widget-move patch

Steve Berman