Re: Next release from master

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> On 02/10/2016 09:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> the best person to write documentation of a feature is the one who made the
>> change, and the best time to do that is as part of or immediately following
>> the development, when all the details are still fresh in that person's
>> memory.

> I quite agree with this. The all-too-common habit of "write code first, hope
> somebody else will document later" is a terribly inefficient way improve
> Emacs, and we really should change our collective habits in this area. I've
> been doing my best to document as I go, and find that this is much better --
> among other things, documenting is a good way to find bugs before they're
> committed to the master branch.

Can we move this discussion to another thread? It is only vaguely related to
deciding what the next release from master will be.

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