Re: Tentative release schedule for Emacs 29.1

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  yantar92@gmail.com,  
> kyle@kyleam.com
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:23:11 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > So why are you worried about the Org release, and why are you talking
> > about fixing bugs after Emacs 29.1 is released? why not fix them while
> > Emacs 29.1 is in pretest?
> 
> My assumption was that we have to release Org 9.6 _before_ the Emacs
> 29.1 release cycle begins because the Emacs release branch will be for
> bug fixes only and we would not be able to update Org to 9.6 in Emacs
> then.

I see no reason to require the emacs-29 branch to have a released
version of Org in it.  From the Emacs POV, what matters is that you
don't add new features to Org that is part of the branch after the
branching point.  Other than that, you can make the official Org 9.6
release whenever you want, as long as what will be on master
immediately before the branching point is close enough to 9.6, such
that only minor changes (and bugfixes) will be needed there before
Emacs 29.1 is released.

> Is it so?  Or can we release Org 9.6 _after_ Emacs release branch has
> been cut and sync it in this release branch after?

This is undesirable if what we have now on master is very different
from 9.6.  If it is not very different, you are free to release Org
9.6 whenever you want.