From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Confused by y-or-n-p Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:35:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <834kkcr1eo.fsf@gnu.org> <83bleinmse.fsf@gnu.org> <56435592-d2d0-5fb6-977f-01e1931da835@gmx.at> <87k0t38g1z.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83czyvkts6.fsf@gnu.org> <87bleetirr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87y2hhri3n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83pn2tkfg8.fsf@gnu.org> <871rf7ippu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83a6trg6mc.fsf@gnu.org> <87im8f951f.fsf@gnus.org> <83lfdacapo.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8444"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, larsi@gnus.org, juri@linkov.net, eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 07:41:18 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kwg1u-00026k-HU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 07:41:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50008 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwg1t-0004PB-Iz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:41:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwfwv-0001B9-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:36:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55033) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwfwu-0004OO-9y; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:36:08 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kwfwk-0003Uy-RG; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:35:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Mon, 4 Jan 2021 08:54:37 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:262497 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > To my mind, people running the bleeding edge (i.e. master) also > implicitly agree to test out new feature changes before they are > released. It makes sense in principle. I am willing to experience the new feature changes before they are released. But I build the current master only a few times a year, so I don't see them all fast enough. > So here's a suggestion: perhaps we should think about > sometimes carrying out time-boxed experiments on the master branch in > controversial cases. For example: we add this keybinding now, to be > revisited in 14/21/30 days and then a final discussion is taken to keep > or revert it once people have gotten some experience with it. If I saw a message about that, I would try to build the latest sources soon so I could comment. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)