Re: Branch freezing for release

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Noam Postavsky <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 20:12:00 -0400
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, 
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 16:16, Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > But there are period where you can commit to an emacs-xx branch without
> > asking in advance.
> 
> Which, if I understand CONTRIBUTE correctly, is only when the emacs-xx
> branch has the version set to xx.0.mm.

Yes, exactly.

> Though perhaps there is some fuzziness in CONTRIBUTE over the exact
> meaning of "is in the very last stages of its pretest".

If someone can suggest a better way of saying that, please do.  The
text does say soon afterwards "if you are unsure, ask".