Re: Starting pretest

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Except that, even in this late stage, many of the "bugs" you are
>     asking us to work on are really feature requests.
>
> I think they are really bug fixes.

Quite a few are more like "misfeature fixes": they improve Emacs in
case that indeed there _is_ a useful fix.  But on some of those, the
jury more or less is out, and the attempts to improve things don't
lead to a satisfactory situation before several iterations.  I think
we should really stop trying to improve things now that have not
gotten worse since 21.4.

The only exception I think reasonable is for features that now default
to "on", like font lock mode.  But other than that, "no regression"
should be sufficient for starting pretest.

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