Re: Starting the Emacs 27 release cycle

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:30:35 -0800
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> 
> A few months ago I made changes to Gnus so that non-ascii group names
> (which used to mostly stay encoded) were mostly decoded. But I preserved
> the original odd encoding in Gnus' persistence files, so that developers
> could move back and forth between Emacs versions.
> 
> For the 27.1 release I'd like to use Gnus' upgrade mechanism to switch
> to properly-encoded persistence files. The mechanism includes a prompt
> to the user, so they'll be aware of what happened, and it will only
> affect Gnus users with non-ascii group names. But it would mean that
> those users couldn't switch back to Emacs 26 without seeing encoding
> weirdness.
> 
> Hope that's okay...

I don't know enough about Gnus to have an opinion about the potential
risks in this change.  So I'll leave it to you, Lars, and the rest of
the Gnus team to make the decision whether this should be in Emacs 27
or not.

Thanks.