Re: Next release from master

[Óscar Fuentes]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Exactly. And developing features on `master' entirely bypasses the "it
works" phase, and that is a recipe for disaster. A dangerous change
should be on a branch until "it works" (*), then merged to see if it
"works right" (**). If the developer recruits some volunteers to see if
it "works right" for them before the merge, that's even better.

* An honest "it works", not a "QA is boring, let others do that."

** Some merges should require an approval by the maintainer. This is no
   different from how things are done now. See the cases of the xwidget
   branch, the ffi branch...