Re: Next release from master

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: John Wiegley <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 15:10:13 -0800
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > My own conclusion based on how things worked during Emacs-24.N was that
> > we're better off incrementing the major version every time there are new
> > features. IOW the next release form master should be called 26.1 and 25.N
> > should be kept for a bugfix-only releases from the emacs-25 branch.
> 
> I think you have a good point, Stefan. master should become emacs-26 at some
> point in the future, once it's ready, while emacs-25 should only continue to
> improve and stabilize the 25.x series.

Are you changing your mind? ;-)  You told me something different in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-11/msg01372.html.

> I imagine we will be actively working in emacs-25 for at least 25.1 and 25.2,
> before shifting attention over to master and leaving emacs-25 only for
> maintenance.

You seem to be talking about something that never happened before in
Emacs: we never left any branch "for maintenance", we left it for
good.  Once the decision was made that the next release will be from
master, the branch was abandoned, and never revisited except in
emergency (e.g., if some super-critical bug was reported in the last
release that required an urgent fix).