Re: Starting the Emacs 27 release cycle

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 18:05:19 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I've created the emacs-27 release branch, and bumped Emacs version on
> master to 28.0.50.  A pretest of Emacs 27.1 will follow some time
> soon, I hope.

Thanks!

> Please from now on push safe bugfixes and documentation fixes to the
> release branch; all the other development should happen on master.
> When in doubt whether a bugfix is safe enough, please ask.

> CONTRIBUTE has more about working with master and the release branch,
> please review those practices.

> Please also checkout and build the release branch and use the version
> there to find potential bugs sooner rather than later.

> TIA

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).