Re: Discuss new features/enhancements or large changes for users in emacs-devel

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, adam@alphapapa.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:08:07 -0500
> 
>   >   . a discussion could wander into a tangent, in which case TRT is to
>   >     ask people to make the tangent a separate discussion, instead of
>   >     moving it to emacs-devel
> 
> If the new topic is a tangent to the bug discussion, where that should go
> depends on what it is about.
> 
> It might be of little importance to Emacs, in which case maybe it
> ought to move to emacs-tangents.  Or it be a suggestion for some
> bigger change in Emacs.   That should go to emacs-devel, I think.

When we tell people to make the tangent a separate discussion, it goes
without saying that the separate discussion should have its best place
determined as part of starting it.

>   >   . we encourage people to submit "feature-request" bug reports (and
>   >     Emacs recently acquired the "M-x submit-emacs-patch" command for
>   >     that reason), in which case the bug list _is_ the proper place to
>   >     discuss that.  When the feature is significant and/or affects
>   >     Emacs or our users in prominent ways, prudence would mandate that
>   >     we move such general discussions to emacs-devel, but that's a
>   >     judgment call, not an automatic knee-jerk reaction
> 
> Jdgment calls are like this.  There is no precise rule that gives a
> perect result every time.  That is too much to ask for.
> 
> What we can hope for is to recognize when a local change idea
> has wandered into an idea for a change that would affect a lot
> more situations.

Agreed.