Re: Preview: portable dumper

[Daniel Colascione]

On November 30, 2016 8:10:21 PM PST, John Wiegley <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>EZ> Having new features on a branch is our standard development
>practice. It
>EZ> allows the interested people to try the feature in situations no
>single
>EZ> person can possibly create, even if that person has access to
>several
>EZ> platforms, because usage patterns differ a lot.
>
>EZ> We can establish pass criteria, if you like, but the only criteria
>until
>EZ> now were "if enough time passed and no one complained, it's ready".
>
>EZ> In this case, we will probably also consider alternative approaches
>if
>EZ> they become mature.
>
>I agree with Eli here, this is what branches are for. Daniel, if you
>think
>they have cultural baggage that makes them distasteful, that's a
>different
>problem. Branches are a perfectly acceptable tool, and they give us an
>easy
>way to assess progress as the work develops.
>
>Please submit your code to a branch, and we'll ask everyone who's
>capable to
>begin testing on as many platforms as we can find. Once enough time has
>passed
>and no one has complained, it can move to master.

If that's your decision, I'm going to fork.