Re: Patches for Emacs 25.2

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:09:55 +0200
> 
> yesterday, I've shown two candidate patches for Tramp (bug#24698,
> bug#24478). Given, that there will be an Emacs 25.2 soon, I'm undecided
> whether they shall go into the emacs-25 branch, once confirmed by the
> bug reporters. Any policy for that?

I described what I thought should be the policy here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-10/msg00007.html

to which no one objected.

Bug#24478 is listed as blocking 25.2 release, so its fix should
definitely go to the emacs-25 branch.  But I understand you are still
waiting for Glenn to tell whether the solution is correct?

Not sure about bug#24698.  Does it fit the criteria described in the
above message?

> Will there be a test period for Emacs 25.2?

Yes, but I'd like it to be very short.  If possible, I'd like to start
the 25.2 pretest in a couple of weeks.

> One policy could be, that only fixes shall be pushed to the emacs-25
> branch for bugs which have been marked as blocking bug#21966. In this
> case, what would be the policy to add a bug there? bug#24478 belongs to
> that list already, bug#24698 doesn't.

See above.  Not every bug that fits the criteria is listed as
blocking, primarily because we simply failed to mark them as blocking.

Thanks.