Hi Kevin,

On 2026-01-26T19:32:39+0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 08:56:58AM +0100, Fabian Groffen via Mutt-dev wrote:
> > Why don't you do it now, and declare 2.3.0 a "last" release that will not
> > receive any updates.  If there's a problem, that needs resolving that is
> > too big not to easily backport to 2.3.0, just release 2.4.0.
> > 
> > I think with the effort to get things going again, perhaps it is nice
> > when all of that can be done immediately on a codebase that's formatted
> > in the way it should be.
> 
> I'm willing to consider doing it now.  Traditionally, stable branch releases
> are just for security issues and important bug fixes.  I try to keep the
> changes small, so while there might be some pain in merges it's probably not
> insurmountable.
> 
> How do others feel?

I don't mind.  If a patch has exclusively white-space changes, it should
be relateively safe, and git-diff(1) has -w to verify that it doesn't
change anything other than white space.

Either way should be fine, IMO.


Have a lovely day!
Alex

> 
> > A commit hook can perhaps even ban commits to source/header files with
> > lines that start with whitespace containing hard tabs in them.
> 
> Yup, that would be nice.
> 
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