Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.]

[Jérôme Marant]

Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> The way it worked until now was that if a decision was made to release
> the version X.N from a branch, the version number on the trunk was
> bumped up to X.N+1.50.  This involves running "M-x set-version RET"
> from admin.el.
>
> The situation you describe, where both a branch and a trunk version
> are undergoing a pretest never happened before, since Emacs
> development until now assumed that we don't have enough resources to
> do that, and so there was at most one pretest at a time.  I'm not sure
> we can change that, given the available resources.

So, are you telling that maintaing bugfix release like we proposed
is not doable because of the current numbering scheme?

If not, what do you propose?

Thanks.

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Jérôme Marant