Re: Question on contributing to Org-mode

[Kyle Meyer]

Ag Ibragimov writes:

> M-x emacs-version and org-version report:
>
> GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin19.5.0, NS appkit-1894.50 
> Version 10.15.5 (Build 19F101)) of 2020-06-07
> Org mode version 9.3.7 (9.3.7-2-g706970-elpaplus @ 
> ~/.emacs.d/elpa/28.0/develop/org-plus-contrib-20200608/)
>
> Now I'm confused, what's in master of bzg/org-mode?

It contains what will be the next feature release (9.4, at the moment).

Notice that your reported version above contains a git revision: 706970.
If you look that up in the repo, you'll find that it's a few commits
back from the current tip of the maint branch.  The maint branch is the
source for the ELPA builds and is where bug fix releases are cut from.

> And if someone wants to send patches, which branch it should be based
> of?

Bug fixes that apply to maint should ideally be based off of maint, and
master is usually appropriate for everything else.