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Re: Next release from master


From: Óscar Fuentes
Subject: Re: Next release from master
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 05:02:49 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm sure Eli (and the rest of us) would be very happy to see you help
> with documentation.

This response would be very apropos in case Alexis contributed some
feature without documentation.

IMO it is very reasonable to require documenting the contributed
changes. Without that, code reviews and testing are much harder. If the
documentation is not correct English, as long as it is understandable
with some effort, fixing that is easier (*) than reading the code,
understanding its purpose and writing documentation while hoping that
you are describing what the contributor actually intended to implement.

* And something you can expect a bystander to do, hence justifying the
  "patches welcome" standard retort.




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