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29.0.60; Standardize csharp-ts-mode's font-lock features

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From: Theodor Thornhill <theo <at> thornhill.no>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, jostein <at> kjonigsen.net
Cc: 60376 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, casouri <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#60376: 29.0.60; Standardize csharp-ts-mode's font-lock features
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:40:49 +0100

On 30 December 2022 15:15:48 CET, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 14:35:46 +0100
>> Cc: 60376 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jostein <at> kjonigsen.net, theo <at> thornhill.no
>> From: Jostein Kjønigsen <jostein <at> secure.kjonigsen.net>
>> 
>> Cc: 60376 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jostein <at> kjonigsen.net, theo <at> thornhill.no
>> >> From: Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 14:16:13 -0800
>> >>
>> >>> So a "complete feature freeze" is approaching. That makes complete sense, and I respect that. Are there any exact
>> >>> deadlines or dates we'd like to stay ahead of, or is this more an abstract thing, until Emacs 29 is eventually deemed ready
>> >>> for release?
>> >> I heard that it’s in a few days (from Eli).
>> > That was a few days ago ;-)  So now it's "any day now".
>> 
>> Ok. That's unfortunate timing.
>> 
>> To be clear, I think it's absolutely realistic to get csharp-ts-mode to 
>> adhere to some of the guidelines outlined in the 
>> tree-sitter-standardization thread.
>> 
>> But it's completely unrealistic (at least on my part) to get any 
>> well-crafted and well-tested changes into csharp-ts-mode until after 
>> new-years.
>
>If you can come up with a 85% correct code soon, and leave the rest
>for bug-fixing, that's also acceptable.
>
>Otherwise, please understand my POV: we do want to release Emacs 29
>soon.  The tree-sitter related features already got a full month of
>slack, whereby new features were acceptable on the release branch.  If
>we keep delaying the freeze, we will not release Emacs 29 any time
>soon.  You have all been here for the past month, and I announced the
>rules loud and clear, so if some modes are still not up to speed with
>the latest treesit.el changes, then it's too bad, but we will have to
>wait for Emacs 30 with those.  I'm sorry, but we do need to draw the
>line in the sand at some point: people are waiting for Emacs 29, and
>we cannot disappoint them.

I agree, but I'll see what I can do this evening. 

Jostein, if you can take the patch I concoct for a spin I'm sure we can reach that 85% mark ;)

Theo

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