Re: Release schedule

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>     If only we'd manage to get a pretest cycle finished without somebody
>>     noticing things that "really need to" get reorganized before the
>>     release.
>
>> It is a good thing someone noticed!
>
> It's not.  I can easily come up with "something that needs
> reorganizing" or even with plain bugs.  I don't know how long I
> could keep it up, but I'm pretty sure I could delay the release by a
> few years this way.
>
> Emacs is and has always be "approximate", allowing itself incorrect
> behaviors in various "corner" cases, based on the expectation that
> the user will notice it.  The result is "a big happy mess" that's
> also tremendously useful.  Fixing it would amount to breaking it.

"Fixing" and "reorganizing" stuff eternally is not tantamount to
breaking Emacs.  It is tantamount to keeping Emacs to ourselves and
not let the users have it.

-- 
David Kastrup