From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk still not open Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:52:13 +0200 Message-ID: <831ty0bwea.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6xwqfxhl88.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83txb1mcsy.fsf@gnu.org> <87siqlku0i.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87wqfxari2.fsf@yandex.ru> <87ha70kyy3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395075168 1874 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2014 16:52:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:52:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 17 17:52:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WPamV-000211-W6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:52:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPamV-00044U-Ju for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:52:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43048) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPamM-0003x6-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPamF-0000cH-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:53922) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPamF-0000br-I7; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:52:39 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N2L00F00AJG2O00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:52:08 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N2L00EA4AUVP9A0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:52:08 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:170450 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:13:19 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Not "document it right away", but "don't leave it 12 months till the > next release for some other sucker to do, while you go off and develop > the next shiny thing." In my experience, if you don't document right away, you get an unmanageable pile of pending documentation before long. It's impractical. Not to mention that several months after I write the code I don't really remember all of the fine points, and the documentation comes out worse than it could have been.