Re: GNU Emacs as a lightweight IDE (seeking volunteers)

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 09.03.2021 07:28, Anand Tamariya wrote:
> 
>     Before that, it might be helpful to post them in a branch for anyone
>     who
>     might want to take a look, to give a pre-review, so to speak.
> 
> It's available in gitlab branch 
> https://gitlab.com/atamariya/emacs/-/tree/dev 
> <https://gitlab.com/atamariya/emacs/-/tree/dev> . If you want it in some 
> other repo, can you provide me access to that repo?

Gitlab looks good enough for me.

Regarding your access to the Emacs repository, it's probably a 
discussion for later.

>     Relatedly, while looking through your /compare/master...dev link, I
>     noticed some questionable changes, though. Like some commented-out
>     code,
>     or checked in company-semantic.el (did you add some extra features to
>     it?), or changes to a number of files in /progmodes/ (!). These should
>     have to go, unless accompanied with real good justifications.
> 
> Changes to company-semantic.el will of course go into company package. 
> It's presently in my repo for my convenience. I've added some 
> post-completion and template changes (eg SQL).

We want to obsolete company-semantic sooner or later because it 
duplicates CEDET's completion-at-point-functions function, hopefully 
migrating whatever features are missing.

> Changes to some files (e.g. in progmodes) is the reason why I want 
> atleast couple of more users to test the functionality. I don't want to 
> push some changes that might have wide impact on the basis of my 
> individual testing alone. What if some existing functionality is 
> breaking that I'm unaware of (something that I don't use)?

Even if nobody complains, you will still have to explain/justify every 
such change.