Re: Emacs 26.2 RC1 is out!

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nicolas Petton <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:50:14 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> I'm putting Glenn in Cc, I believe he wrote that part of the
> documentation.
> 
> > A tarball for distribution should not contain anything that has not
> > been committed to version control.
> 
> I agree with that, but it's not the current process as described in
> admin/make-tarball.txt.  I'm fine with tagging RCs and pushing files
> with unreleased version numbers, but then I will adjust the content of
> make-tarball.txt.

Can you (or Glenn or someone else) describe what would need to be
changed in the docs, and what additional actions would have to be
made?

I don't think I mind RC tags in the repository, even if they
eventually point to the same commit as the release, but I'm not sure I
understand the details well enough.

Thanks.