From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Preview: portable dumper Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:12:45 -0800 Message-ID: References: <047a67ec-9e29-7e4e-0fb0-24c3e59b5886@dancol.org> <83zikjxt1j.fsf@gnu.org> <8360n6ruzu.fsf@gnu.org> <0839b53b-4607-144f-3746-db054a29c1cd@cs.ucla.edu> <83zikiqdu5.fsf@gnu.org> <834m2orkhn.fsf@gnu.org> <83h96opaye.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480565622 28471 195.159.176.226 (1 Dec 2016 04:13:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 04:13:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley ,Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 01 05:13:38 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIkb-0006SM-0E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:13:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48013 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIkd-0007BP-8K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:13:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59374) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIkX-0007BK-Fy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:13:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIkW-00016A-IC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:13:33 -0500 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3]:51006) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIkR-00013x-ER; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:13:27 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dancol.org; s=x; h=Message-ID:CC:To:Date:From:Subject:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To; bh=QrUOh7NgLQuVm2yI10xli5VoJQ7pLMBDsN5cCoH+uAw=; b=SGeSFBaYb6qKhxPAqJ31g4zhdHa9i+nJDMPHqpu9W4NGmUC0VgVDhmsVsuSsoxFJroeAxB3NHkWTMN3tKu4UPleSc58e8+c03RDtq1akBEEriV5OAD0vkuiImkvEuO1XRvpoUTrG5usRDitYkE1IGqV4k4AEymvYLPT1FMQHzkuiRDGawPpKdlucl+6DyToGofYfxzPAvj9gHtxo2Hb5YrmQyXV+7/nWEfO/6FXlEuXnIyb4Wsf/AtXnbrOdHeMjU+aqglMp1k+8OUB5QYnUj+pH9WweiBhOGrV/G4d/++wnXmW6yTwj9n5UkmHf4Q8h0J6T57h9T4OTnJDxH2WKjQ==; Original-Received: from [166.170.39.160] (helo=[10.204.89.253]) by dancol.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIkQ-0004IS-8r; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:13:26 -0800 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209860 Archived-At: On November 30, 2016 8:10:21 PM PST, John Wiegley wrote: >>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii writes: > >EZ> Having new features on a branch is our standard development >practice. It >EZ> allows the interested people to try the feature in situations no >single >EZ> person can possibly create, even if that person has access to >several >EZ> platforms, because usage patterns differ a lot. > >EZ> We can establish pass criteria, if you like, but the only criteria >until >EZ> now were "if enough time passed and no one complained, it's ready". > >EZ> In this case, we will probably also consider alternative approaches >if >EZ> they become mature. > >I agree with Eli here, this is what branches are for. Daniel, if you >think >they have cultural baggage that makes them distasteful, that's a >different >problem. Branches are a perfectly acceptable tool, and they give us an >easy >way to assess progress as the work develops. > >Please submit your code to a branch, and we'll ask everyone who's >capable to >begin testing on as many platforms as we can find. Once enough time has >passed >and no one has complained, it can move to master. If that's your decision, I'm going to fork.