Beyond release

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>]

Hi Emacs,

while the release of Emacs 25 is pending and not everyone is involved 
fixing remaining bugs, it might be time to reflect what to do afterward.

What about establishing a structured TODO - structured according to 
importance and difficulty?

While Emacs is my editor of choice, it has some serious --and mostly 
unnecessary-- flaws.

To make clear, that's not just a personal view, please consider the 
withdraw of advanced and promising theorem prover Isabelle/HOL, which 
doesn't longer support Emacs, while relying on it before. BTW that 
withdraw was in time, before John took over and AFAIU caused by a 
policy, which hopefully is abandoned now. "policy" means here: how to 
design code and how to deal with bugs.

The most simple but far reaching bug IMO is the inconsistence of 
beginning-of-defun introduced by open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start 
and related. It not only makes Emacs Lisp editing somehow 
non-professional, it also affects python.el and seems spread its 
inconsistency beyond, making people believe such things are normal.


Cheers,

Andreas