From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kyle Meyer Subject: Re: Sync up the org in emacs master to org maint branch? Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:19:33 -0500 Message-ID: <87y3xys5qi.fsf@kyleam.com> References: <87a8afaxlz.fsf@gmx.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58958) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWdPR-0001sw-NP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:19:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWdPQ-0001ER-Od for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:19:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87a8afaxlz.fsf@gmx.us> (rasmus@gmx.us's message of "Wed, 25 Jan 2017 17:54:48 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Rasmus Cc: Kaushal Modi , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Rasmus writes: > Kaushal Modi writes: [...] >> As a precaution that that does not repeat when emacs 26.x is released, >> should the org version in emacs master be synced with the now latest stable >> org version 9.0.4? > > Yes. We'd want at least one more release from maint, I think, so that'd be 9.0.5. >> If we are able the release the new packaging method in emacs 26.x, then we >> can remove org from emacs master completely, but if not, then at least as >> backup we have a newer org version to go out with that release. > > What is the current status? I am a bit confused about the policy at this > point. I'm happy to try to update master to 9.0.4, but I was somehow > under the impression that we were waiting for a solution to include ELPA > packages in the Emacs tarball. Rasmus, I've pushed a branch (emacs-sync) to the Org repo that applies several patches on top of maint. These make a few changes to org.texi and orgcard.tex that I think are appropriate for the sync. Feel free to ignore the branch if it's not helpful. Thanks. -- Kyle