Re: Future release of emacs-26

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 11:05:08 +0200
>> 
>> Okay. But I would think that it needs to be sooner rather than
>> later. The time could disappear very rapidly with summer coming up. Even
>> as it stands, there may be many GNU/Linux distributions that will not
>> update before the key runs out which is a bit messy.
>
> I proposed to start a pretest more than a week ago, so I obviously
> agree.  I still see many proposals for backporting fixes and fixing
> regressions, so maybe others want to wait a bit.


Okay.

Perhaps the key on ELPA needs to be updated before a release, so that
there is a longer lead time?

Phil