bug#46627: [External] : bug#46627: [PATCH] Add new help command 'describe-command'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:29:06 -0500
> Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 46627@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
> 
>   > "Trials" in Emacs itself are not so great, IMO.
>   > Someone puts something on a branch 
> 
> That way of tryialing something has a drawback as you say:
> 
>   > trial and feedback.  But the only people who try
>   > it are Emacs Dev aficionados who build Emacs or
>   > pull stuff from Git etc.
> 
> The way I suggest handling these is to put them in the release, then
> tell people a command to run to try them.  That makes it easy
> to try them out.

That is only a viable option if the new feature is opt-in and doesn't
change the default behavior in any way, shape or form.  (This being an
old discussion, I no longer have a clear idea whether the above
conditions are fulfilled under your proposal.)  And having the new
feature on a branch first does not in any way contradict the trial by
a larger audience later, when the feature is released.

So I don't think I understand well enough what is the issue being
discussed here, as we already do all of that.