Re: Branch freezing for release

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Noam Postavsky <address@hidden>,  <address@hidden>,  <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:59:14 +0100
>> 
>> Just to be clear: is it okay to push/backport fixes to emacs-26 again?
>
> Nothing's changed, the status is still according to CONTRIBUTE: the
> next release is 26.2, i.e. the minor version is > 1, so only doc fixes
> are automatically safe; the rest should get an explicit permission,
> and generally they won't get it (since we already had RC1).
>
>> I've noted the following commits as candidates for backporting:
>> 
>> [1: 10cd65878c]: Update documentation for indent-relative functions
>>   2019-04-05 19:48:21 -0500
>>   
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=10cd65878c741d2a22a1f2c36c54fcad4e516f72
>> 
>> [2: 0e468a6204]: Avoid using obsolete indent-relative-maybe
>>   2019-04-03 17:55:40 +0100
>>   
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=0e468a620458fecd003c396050aa6deb722982c1
>> 
>> [3: 690c678fb6]: Fix comment-empty-lines docstring (bug#35152)
>>   2019-04-04 23:41:02 +0100
>>   
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=690c678fb6c1fb5b2f828f9bb90782bd0b01c399
>> 
>> N.B.: Commit [2] also includes small code changes, not just docfixes.
>
> I hope you now know the answer; if not, please ask for clarifications.

My understanding is that commits [1] and [3] above are automatically
safe and I may backport them, and that backporting commit [2] is
unlikely to receive your blessing.

But I would like to ask for it nonetheless, since commit [2] is an
obvious fix™ for a regression in 26.1:

[4: a9973a3c16]: Extend 'indent-relative' when its arg is non-nil
  2016-11-18 11:02:55 +0200
  
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=a9973a3c164060bde08a717b46023a3bf68909c8

I do, of course, understand I may have missed that ship.

Thanks for clarifying,

-- 
Basil