Re: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core

[Stephen Leake]

Roland Winkler <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

+1

I have an experimental version of ada-mode I'd like users to try.

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