Re: Release 9.3.8

[Kévin Le Gouguec]

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm releasing Org 9.3.8, a bugfix release.
>
> Enjoy!

Thanks for this release 🎉

> The next release will be 9.4: if you have outstanding important bugs
> you would like to point to or to report, please go ahead.

No bug to report, however I've got a couple of questions wrt. versions:

- Once 9.4 is released, will the maint branch be updated to this
  version?

- Will Emacs's maintenance branch (emacs-27) be updated with Org 9.3.8,
  so that Emacs 27.2 includes all bugfixes for 9.3?  (If so, I can open
  a new report on Debbugs to track this, as suggested by Stefan K.)

- During the development of 9.4, AFAICT, while the "Version:" comment in
  org.el sayd "9.4-dev", the org-version variable matched the latest
  tag, i.e. 9.3.x.

  I therefore couldn't figure out a way to check for 9.4
  programmatically.  Would it make sense to:

    - set a "release_x.(y+1)-rc" tag on master once version "x.y" is
      released and goes in the maint branch,

    - in targets.mk, when computing ORGVERSION, add "--first-parent" to
      "git describe", so that org-version matches this rc-tag when
      compiling Org's master branch?

At any rate, thanks for all the work.