RE: display-buffer-alist simplifications

[Drew Adams]

> Alternatively, we could postpone the pretest and invest the time into
> this issue now.  IMO, reverting everything, or even a large portion of
> it, would be extremely unkind to Martin's efforts, especially that the
> only reason for that is our self-imposed date of pretest start.  That
> date is by no means sacred.  We should cherish significant
> contributions like this one much more than we cherish the schedule of
> Emacs releases.

1+

Take the time. Get it right.
There should be no hurry to get to Emacs 24.

And if you do decide to take the time then you can probably thaw the feature
freeze, at least for relatively predictably small new features. IOW, forget
about the "self-imposed date of pretest start".