Re: Next release from master

[Óscar Fuentes]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> My sole (admittedly passive-aggressive) point is, if someone's not
> helping with code or documentation, they should get no vote on what
> the process should be.

Alexis responded to that, and I agree with him.

>> IMO it is very reasonable to require documenting the contributed
>> changes. Without that, code reviews and testing are much harder.
>
> Not if the feature has appropriate docstrings and header commentary.

I was talking about docstrings and, possibly, NEWS too.

> As far as I'm concerned, the manual is a separate universe which
> requires additional knowledge to contribute to.

This is reasonable, as long as we have people willing to work on it and
that doesn't detract them from other more valuable work they would do
instead.

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