Re: Why wasn't the 25.3 release based on the then-head of the emacs-25 branch?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 13:20:41 -0700
> 
> > This release needed to be 100% safe.  Not 99.99%, 100%.
> 
> We would never release anything if we required 100% safety.

We just did.

> The requirement should be that the release be significantly 
> better, and that it is worth the cost of making the release.

Normally, yes.  But not for an emergency release that fixes a security
vulnerability: that one must not have any issues or problems, because
people will start using it as soon as it is available.

> This discussion is really more about we should do with the next
> emergency release, not the previous one.

If it is bout that, I didn't see it.  Seriously discussing what to do
next time should not be about the details of what was done this time,
because the specific circumstances will certainly be different.