* CONTRIBUTE: add Savannah url, cleanup announcing freeze.

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@ -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.
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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.

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2014-12-23 Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
* CONTRIBUTE: add Savannah url, cleanup announcing freeze.
2014-12-19 Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Move user-level information from CONTRIBUTE to doc/emacs/trouble.texi