From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 08:43:35 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ; * CONTRIBUTE: No cleanups on release branches, even in docs. X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~38 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d1aa552d11484ab15944a1f3c15f607dda811d8d;p=emacs.git ; * CONTRIBUTE: No cleanups on release branches, even in docs. --- diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index 8295a8e6ad4..5740004637b 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -342,7 +342,9 @@ Documentation fixes (in doc strings, in manuals, in NEWS, and in comments) should always go to the release branch, if the documentation to be fixed exists and is relevant to the release-branch codebase. Doc fixes are always considered "safe" -- even when a release branch -is in feature freeze, it can still receive doc fixes. +is in feature freeze, it can still receive doc fixes. However, this +rule is limited to fixing real problems in the documentation; cleanups +and stylistic changes are excluded. When you know that the change will be difficult to merge to the master (e.g., because the code on master has changed a lot), you can