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Re: Trunk still not open


From: Juanma Barranquero
Subject: Re: Trunk still not open
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:07:46 +0100

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Glenn Morris <address@hidden> wrote:

> Yes, I found it daunting when I tried to look at it! :)

That's... good to know, I suppose? ;-)

> (But also it convinced me you can write perfectly good English
> documentation; not that I needed convincing.)

Documentation can be extracted from me, in a process somewhat akin to
fracking but not so nice, you mean.

> You don't need to repeat all that info.
> A brief definition of what a frameset is, and what you might want to use
> it for, and then an overview of the main functions for creating,
> manipulating them, etc. So that people know the concept exists and what
> functions to look at to get started.

As David just reminded us, is hard to do brief. I'll try.

> So why hasn't everyone been making that their number one priority?
> I can only assume it's because they thought "someone else will take care
> of that".

Or they just think they're not good at it?

> There are also many bugs that need addressing.
> First the "important" ones (several related to package.el), but also at
> some point ideally anything filed after 24.3's release, or against
> 24.3 or 24.3.50, should be reviewed. This is ~ 700 bugs. Although ~ half
> of those are wishlist/minor.

Yes, but fixing bugs shouldn't affect the (un)freezing; pretest is as
good a time as any to fix bug.

   J



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