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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trunk still not open
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:43:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ha71m7y5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87siqlku0i.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:29:49 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
>  > > I think that in future there needs to be more of a culture of people at
>  > > least trying to document their own changes, around the time they make
>  > > them.
>  > 
>  > Agreed.
>  > 
>  > > Some people said they want more frequent releases.
>  > > Well, you can't have that unless more people start doing some of the
>  > > less-interesting work that goes along with releases.
>  > 
>  > Indeed.
> 
> All very true, but practically speaking this has to be decided at the
> project level, and accompanied by a no-push-without-required-docs
> policy.

Yes, of course.

> Of course there's no reason to require that *patch authors* write
> docs, 3rd parties can do that just as well.

Indeed, volunteers are welcome for that job.  But if no one steps
forward, demanding documentation as part of the patch submission is
the only alternative.  Some projects already do that.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-14  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 128+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-27  5:00 Trunk still not open Stefan Monnier
2014-03-13 20:55 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-14  7:58   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-14  9:29     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-14  9:35       ` David Kastrup
2014-03-14  9:47         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-14 10:02           ` David Kastrup
2014-03-14 10:23             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-14 10:40               ` David Kastrup
2014-03-14 11:02                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-14  9:43       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-03-14  9:55       ` Bastien
2014-03-14 15:16         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-14 11:42       ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-15  9:13         ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-14 12:34       ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-14 13:38         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-14 19:35           ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-18 20:01             ` joakim
2014-03-19  6:29               ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-19 16:43             ` Stefan
2014-03-14 14:34         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-14 14:57           ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-14 15:29             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-15  6:22               ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-15  9:02                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-16  0:26                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-16  3:49                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-14 15:39             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-15  6:30               ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-17  4:33                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-14 19:31         ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-14 20:08           ` Daniel Colascione
2014-03-16  1:00             ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-16  2:30               ` Daniel Colascione
2014-03-15  1:55           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-15  2:09             ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-15  8:22               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-15 10:52                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-15 11:18                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-15 11:28                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-16  1:08                   ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-16  2:09                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-16 10:02                       ` martin rudalics
2014-03-17 16:26                       ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-17 17:03                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-17 17:25                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-17 17:31                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 15:54                           ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-18 17:07                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 17:21                               ` David Kastrup
2014-03-18 17:27                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-19  4:25                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-17  4:43                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-17 12:38                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-17 14:31                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-18  6:00                       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-18  7:51                         ` David Kastrup
2014-03-18 12:10                           ` John Yates
2014-03-18 12:20                             ` David Kastrup
2014-03-18 12:52                               ` John Yates
2014-03-18 13:01                                 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-18 10:56                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 16:13                       ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-18 16:16                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 17:25                           ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-18 17:30                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 17:51                               ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-16  0:39                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-16  3:52                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-16  5:25                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-16 16:10                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-16 16:36                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-16 18:20                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-15 10:02               ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-15 10:19                 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-15 11:01                   ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-15 11:10                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-17 14:32             ` Stefan
2014-03-17 15:13               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-03-17 16:13                 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-17 16:43                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-17 16:13               ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-17 16:52                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-17 16:33               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-15  3:22           ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-15  7:10             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-03-15  9:02               ` David Kastrup
2014-03-15  8:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-16  0:32               ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-16  1:27                 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-16  5:31                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-16 11:26                 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-03-16  3:57               ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-16 16:17                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-16 19:17                   ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-16 20:10                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-17  4:56                       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-19  7:57                         ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-19 16:06                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-19 23:21                             ` Jambunathan K
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-03-17 14:47 Barry OReilly
2014-03-18 17:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 19:05   ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-18 19:24     ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 19:29       ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-18 19:47     ` David Kastrup
2014-03-18 19:57       ` David Kastrup
2014-03-19 15:17       ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-19  6:20         ` David Kastrup
2014-03-19  7:24           ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-19 15:22       ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-19 14:54 Alexander Poslavsky
2014-03-19 15:18 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-19 15:21   ` Alexander Poslavsky
2014-03-19 15:51     ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-19 16:23       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-19 20:38       ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-19 15:57     ` Bastien
2014-03-19 15:59       ` Bastien
2014-03-19 16:13         ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-19 17:15       ` Nicolas Richard
2014-03-19 23:38         ` Bastien
2014-03-19 18:45     ` Stefan
2014-03-19 20:01       ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-20  1:22         ` Stefan
2014-03-19 21:21       ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-20  1:24         ` Stefan

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