Re: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core

[Roland Winkler]

On Tue, Apr 17 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> FWIW, currently GNU ELPA supports this in the following way: a new GNU
> ELPA package is only created once the "Version:" of a package is
> bumped.  So you can add experimental code to elpa.git's master branch
> without worrying about its effect on the distributed package and when
> that code is ready you can just bump the "Version:" header to cause a
> new release.

It would be nice to be able to go beyond that.  I am grateful if
adventurous users are willing to test the experimental code.  So it
would be nice if there was infrastructure that somehow allowed these
users to subscribe to the experimental code, similar to how the
development of core emacs benefits from users using the master branch.