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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "rms@gnu.org" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: "stefan@marxist.se" <stefan@marxist.se>,
	"46627@debbugs.gnu.org" <46627@debbugs.gnu.org>,
	"dgutov@yandex.ru" <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#46627: [External] : bug#46627: [PATCH] Add new help command 'describe-command'
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 16:52:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SA2PR10MB44746F37D312296F55AD8819F3999@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1lGyWo-0000mJ-Ia@fencepost.gnu.org>

>   > "Trials" in Emacs itself are not so great, IMO.
>   > Someone puts something on a branch
> 
> That way of tryialing something has a drawback as you say:
> 
>   > trial and feedback.  But the only people who try
>   > it are Emacs Dev aficionados who build Emacs or
>   > pull stuff from Git etc.
> 
> The way I suggest handling these is to put them in the release, then
> tell people a command to run to try them.  That makes it easy
> to try them out.

Yes, but that has another downside: what's in a release tends to stick, for various reasons, including user take-up and developer acceptance.  At that point, the question becomes who likes the new thing and who doesn't, how many do and don't.  And such "polling" or debate typically favor the (new) status quo - it's in; leave it in.  "That ship has sailed" is a sea-shanty refrain we hear quite often here.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-02 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-19  1:06 bug#46627: [PATCH] Add new help command 'describe-command' Stefan Kangas
2021-02-19  8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-19 17:42   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-19 18:38     ` bug#46627: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-20  3:25       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-20  4:25         ` Drew Adams
2021-02-20  8:20           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20  7:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-19 20:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20  4:10       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-20  8:18         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20 17:10           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-21 13:08             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 15:58             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-28 13:58               ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-28 14:17                 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-05-02 13:14                 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-20 12:56     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-20 12:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20 16:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20 14:04       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-20 16:06     ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-20 16:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20 20:06         ` bug#46627: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-20 20:17           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20 20:54             ` Drew Adams
2021-02-20 16:39       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-20 16:49         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20 20:35           ` bug#46627: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-20 20:46             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20 21:16               ` Drew Adams
2021-02-21 15:07                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-21 17:55                   ` Drew Adams
2021-02-21 18:11                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-21 18:30                       ` Drew Adams
2021-02-26 21:34             ` Drew Adams
2021-02-27  8:04               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-27 17:46                 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-21  6:19         ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-21  7:18           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-21 15:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-21 16:39               ` Howard Melman
2021-02-21 18:01                 ` bug#46627: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-21 17:01               ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-21 17:36                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-21 18:02                   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-21 18:21                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-21 19:57                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-21 20:13                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-21 23:46                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-22 15:18                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-27 20:38                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-28 17:27                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-28 21:40                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-01  6:05                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-02  1:40                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-02  5:31                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-02 12:55                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-02 13:47                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-21 17:57               ` bug#46627: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-21 17:33             ` Drew Adams
2021-02-21 13:06           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-21  6:27         ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-21  6:10     ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-21  6:27     ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-19 13:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-19 18:27   ` bug#46627: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-19 18:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-21  6:18     ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-21  6:27     ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-20  6:56 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-20  7:14   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-21  6:19     ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-21  6:27     ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-21  7:17       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-22  6:23         ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-24  3:28           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-27 18:58           ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-01  5:18             ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-01 16:13               ` bug#46627: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-02  6:29                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-02  6:50                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03  5:55                     ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-03 15:26                       ` Drew Adams
2021-03-03 16:14                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-02 16:52                   ` Drew Adams [this message]

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