Re: [MAINTENANCE] Do we have any backwards-compatibility policy for third-party packages?

[Tim Cross]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I guess we are limited by what the packages we rely on support. For
>> example, if geiser doesn't support Emacs 26 but org is supposed to,
>> there isn't much we can do. We cannot afford to fork geiser and modify
>> it to add the support and even if we provided a patch to add the support
>> to the geiser project, they may not merge it.
>>
>> Best we can do is best effort and reflect this limitation in the manual
>> where we stipulate what our backwards compatibility policy is. 
>
> Ok. Here are the tentative patches for Org manual and WORG maintenance
> page.
>

No objections from me. Just based on reading the patches, they appear to
clarify our support policy and therefore should be helpful.