Re: Next release from master

[Daniel Colascione]

On 02/09/2016 06:42 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Emacs is an editor.  When introducing new features, the trivial thing to
>> test is whether "it works".  The complicated thing, and that needs many
>> eyes, is whether something "works right".  Only humans can say whether a
>> feature feels like it's getting in the way of getting things done, or
>> whether it feels like the right thing to do.
> 
> Exactly. And developing features on `master' entirely bypasses the "it
> works" phase, and that is a recipe for disaster. A dangerous change
> should be on a branch until "it works" (*), then merged to see if it
> "works right" (**). If the developer recruits some volunteers to see if
> it "works right" for them before the merge, that's even better.

I see no need for such caution on the master branch. It's just as easy
to revert a broken feature as it is to add one in the first place. I'm
in favor of developing directly on master.

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