Support of older Emacs versions

[Göran Uddeborg]

I'm adding the new "maintainers" list, but for now keep the "info"
list too as non-maintainer users might want to chime in here.

Mark Diekhans wrote:
> John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> writes:
> > I suspect we should just got with debian 11 as our base, along with
> > Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, if it's still accepting updates. If not... let's
> > push to whatever the lowest emacs version is currently shipped on
> > current stuff.
> >
> > Unless someone else has a better idea?
> 
> sounds very reasonable, I have no better idea.

I would question if we need to go back even that far. Isn't it good
enough to support the current version of emacs, i.e. 29 right now, for
any new versions of VM.

I live mostly in the Fedora world, but I understand both Debian 11 and
Ubuntu 20.04 are old. Would the packager for those distributions
really update VM? Without emacs itself being updated? That is not how I
package for Fedora; the latest and/or upcoming release gets the latest
VM, older stay where they are unless something actually breaks.

If someone is using a distribution with an older emacs, then it would
make sense you use an older version of VM too. (At least as far as new
developments are concerned. If we would find e.g. a security issue in
VM, that would be another thing.)

Would this be too agressive? My goal is to keep the load on developers
as light as possible, in order to maximize the chance things get done.

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