From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: What's in a feature? (was: Periodical releases) Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:24:45 +0900 Message-ID: <87k45840aq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87ehvgps3x.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325647501 9281 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2012 03:25:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 03:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Bastien Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 04 04:24:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiHTD-0003F0-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:24:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47924 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiHTC-0003Rv-Ss for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:24:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34178) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiHTA-0003Rf-IZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:24:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiHT9-00072M-KF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:24:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:41913) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiHT9-00072B-79 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:24:51 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA2F9707F2; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:24:45 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1751A1A2770; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:24:45 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87ehvgps3x.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" 2dbefd79b3d3 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147247 Archived-At: Bastien writes: > While thinking again about it, I guess the problem lies in the > meaning of "feature" Bug: doesn't work as currently documented. Undocumented functionality: undocumented but works anyway. Feature: undocumented and doesn't work. For completeness: Miracle: working as currently documented. All of the above must be viewed from the context of the *current* content of the prospective release, *not* from the context of the release after addition of the feature.