From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk still not open Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:32:42 -0400 Message-ID: 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395066777 21794 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2014 14:32:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:32:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dmitry Gutov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 17 15:33:05 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 1WPYbA-0003rD-4g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:33:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58281 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPYb9-0002CB-OF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57341) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPYax-0001rl-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:32:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPYaq-00008z-5P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:32:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:42626) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPYap-00008q-W9; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:32:44 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+KKg/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOOGJZigV6DEw X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+KKg/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOOGJZigV6DEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="52346614" Original-Received: from 206-248-162-160.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.162.160]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 17 Mar 2014 10:32:43 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BB15660F5C; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:32:42 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87ha70kyy3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sat, 15 Mar 2014 10:55:32 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:170435 Archived-At: > I believe that the docs rule is actually pretty low-cost to Emacs > developers as shown by the tradition of high-quality documentation. FWIW, while I suck both at writing documentation and at forcing myself to write documentation, I'm in favor of being more strict w.r.t documentation. But in many cases, code is installed in a non-definitive way, so it's convenient to install the code first, then fix up some of it based on user's feedback and only later write the doc. That saves us the time of documenting the intermediate state. This is linked to our "linear history" workflow. Stefan