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Temporary NEWS markup in still RC

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, nicolas <at> petton.fr
Subject: bug#25613: Temporary NEWS markup in still RC
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:43:35 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>,  25613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:35:12 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Can we shoot for another RC in a few days?  Note that a couple of
> > documentation changes were pushed to the branch since RC1.
> 
> IMO no non-critical changes should be made to a release branch after an RC.
> Just changing NEWS wouldn't have necessitated another RC. There's only
> supposed to be one RC unless something serious happens.

We've been through this discussion before:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-09/msg00063.html

Needless to say, I agree with John here, or else I wouldn't be pushing
those changes a few days ago.

P.S. We seem to have very different ideas of what RC is and what
purpose it serves.

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