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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Next release from master |
Date: | Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:21:30 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 |
On 02/10/2016 09:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
the best person to write documentation of a feature is the one who made the change, and the best time to do that is as part of or immediately following the development, when all the details are still fresh in that person's memory.
I quite agree with this. The all-too-common habit of "write code first, hope somebody else will document later" is a terribly inefficient way improve Emacs, and we really should change our collective habits in this area. I've been doing my best to document as I go, and find that this is much better -- among other things, documenting is a good way to find bugs before they're committed to the master branch.
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