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author | Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> | 2014-12-23 17:38:57 -0600 |
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committer | Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> | 2014-12-23 17:38:57 -0600 |
commit | b4161ac70e4206cc00263e0c1f765b4cf95dfd33 (patch) | |
tree | 9821df3d8d219428e696a317660c26eaffb70333 /CONTRIBUTE | |
parent | fcb978e24023e9af4e465ac98222543990c70ffc (diff) | |
download | emacs-b4161ac70e4206cc00263e0c1f765b4cf95dfd33.tar.gz |
* CONTRIBUTE: add Savannah url, cleanup announcing freeze.
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index a190bd982fc..3bc49cf3ea3 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Contributing.html An "Emacs Developer" is someone who contributes a lot of code or documentation to the Emacs repository. Generally, they have write -access to the Emacs git repository on Savannah. +access to the Emacs git repository on Savannah +https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=emacs. ** Write access to the Emacs repository. @@ -123,15 +124,13 @@ Development is discussed on the emacs-devel mailing list. Sometime before the release of a new major version of Emacs a "feature freeze" is imposed on the trunk, to prepare for creating a release branch. No new features may be added to the trunk after this point, -until the release branch is created. This freeze is announced on the -emacs-devel mailing list, and not anywhere else. +until the release branch is created. Announcements about the freeze +(and other important events) are made on the info-gnu-emacs mailing +list, and not anywhere else. The trunk branch is named "master" in git; release branches are named "emacs-nn" where "nn" is the major version. -Announcements about the freeze (and other important events) are made -on the info-gnu-emacs mailing list. - If you are fixing a bug that exists in the current release, be sure to commit it to the release branch; it will be merged to the master branch later. |