Re: Merges from release branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:55:32 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, danflscr@gmail.com, theo@thornhill.no,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru,
>  larsi@gnus.org, sir@cmpwn.com
> 
> > Of course I wonder if there's something special in Emacs it that makes it
> > somehow vulnerable to more commonly found integration strategies, or,
> > alternatively, if the danger you're imagining is something to worry about
> > for any other projects that utilizes them.
> 
> The discussions at the time were long, detailed, and raised several
> loosely-related issues, all of them in the context of what to say in
> the document we were composing that described the recommended
> procedures.  I don't remember the details, sorry.  Once we understood
> the issues and made the decision, there was no need for me to keep
> those details in memory.  Maybe David or someone else remembers; if
> not, there's no way around the need to read those discussions.

Oh, and the only aspect in those discussions that was specific to
Emacs, AFAIR, was that we have 2 branches that diverge very quickly.