From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, xenodasein@tutanota.de
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Development Speed
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 07:55:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <398DCC81-87F5-43B2-8E3E-8D0D6B1AD4BA@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1mzWYj-0000p3-Nv@fencepost.gnu.org>
On December 21, 2021 6:15:29 AM GMT+02:00, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> I think we sometimes go too fast. However, I don't think we should
> be putting a priority on making the code smaller. Most of the time,
> smaller won't do users much good.
>
> There may be specific areas where some cleaning up would be desirable
> -- what you think of as "paying technical debt". But we should limit
> that to specific aspects where it could be a big improvement. Every
> change risks causing new bugs. I think most cleanups would be
> counterproductive even if they do make cleaner code.
>
IMNSHO, there's no such thing as "too fast development". There's development that makes too many mistakes at a too high rate, but that's not what we have in Emacs, far from that.
As for the risks of excess cleanups: I share your concern, but if some contributor likes cleaning up code, and he/she does a clean job (pun intended), it is better to sustain that risk than risking to lose that contributor, who might one day proceed to developing new features.
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2021-12-19 17:06 Development Speed xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
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2021-12-24 4:13 ` Richard Stallman
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2021-12-24 1:33 ` Sean Whitton
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