Re: Confused by y-or-n-p

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> [...] here's a suggestion: perhaps we should think about sometimes
>> carrying out time-boxed experiments on the master branch in
>> controversial cases.  For example: we add this keybinding now, to be
>> revisited in 14/21/30 days and then a final discussion is taken to
>> keep or revert it once people have gotten some experience with it.
>
> I don't mind having such a process,

Me neither -- I think it sounds like something we should try out.

> provided that someone volunteers to manage it: identify and announce
> the relevant changes, keep track of the time-box of each one of them,
> initiate a discussion when the time is up, etc.  It's a non-trivial
> amount of work.

I think the most natural person to manage the process would be the
person that's proposing the change.  That is, we don't really need much
formalism around this.

To take the already-mentioned case as an example -- Martin wanted to
have us try out horizontal scroll bars to see whether they work, so he'd
flip them on, and announce on emacs-devel "these default to on for a
week, and then we'll discuss".

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