Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.]

["Jérôme Marant" <jmarant@free.fr>]

Selon Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:

> I guess my point was exactly the opposite:
> Not only trying to agree on every detail before doing "anything" can
> artifically delay the beginning of "anything", but it's simply impossible
> because you never know all the possible details beforehand and because
> people might originally agree on X but later on discover that it's actually
> not acceptable to them in practice, contrary to what they thought.
>
> So in practice, whether you plan it that way or not, you end up fixing
> details on the fly.  So I think it's better to accept this fact as a given
> and work with it rather than against it.
>
> What that boils down to, is that someone's commitment will depend on how
> much implicit or explicit positive feedback he experiences *in practice*
> (not just in preliminary discussions).  So go step by step and "ajuste le
> tir" as you move (hpefully) forward.

I'm fine with this. After all, there's nothing to loose and we'll see if
it works in the real. Furthermore, untill 21.4 is release, there's a plenty
of time to think of it.

Cheers,

--
Jérôme Marant