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For >> example, if geiser doesn't support Emacs 26 but org is supposed to, >> there isn't much we can do. We cannot afford to fork geiser and modify >> it to add the support and even if we provided a patch to add the support >> to the geiser project, they may not merge it. >> >> Best we can do is best effort and reflect this limitation in the manual >> where we stipulate what our backwards compatibility policy is. > > Ok. Here are the tentative patches for Org manual and WORG maintenance > page. > No objections from me. Just based on reading the patches, they appear to clarify our support policy and therefore should be helpful.