Re: Next release from master

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:

> What does "to be tested" mean here? Does it mean that the feature was
> not thoroughly tested by the developer yet? Or is "testing" on the sense
> of "let's see if the feature is interesting enough for definitive
> inclusion into Emacs but now it is all over the place and removing it
> would be a lot of work so it is here to stay"?
>
> I've seen very successful projects that encourage developing features in
> the main branch, but those projects have an extensive test suite and a
> policy that dictates that any commit that introduces regressions is
> fixed or reverted as soon as the regression is observed.

Emacs is an editor.  When introducing new features, the trivial thing to
test is whether "it works".  The complicated thing, and that needs many
eyes, is whether something "works right".  Only humans can say whether a
feature feels like it's getting in the way of getting things done, or
whether it feels like the right thing to do.

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