Re: burden of maintainance

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
> Cc: Andreas Röhler <address@hidden>,
>   <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:58:48 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Suggestions for how to improve our test suite without alienating
> > potential contributors are welcome.
> 
> I think for many potential contributors a richer test suite is likely to
> lessen alienation rather than increase it.

I meant if we require each contributor to accompany each commit with a
test, that could prevent quite a few from contributing.

> Still, you asked for ways to improve it. Here is my suggestion:
> 
> address@hidden/large/emacs]$ make test
> make: Nothing to be done for `test'.
> 
> I would rename "check" to "test" and add "test" to .PHONY.

Feel free to make such a change, and TIA.