Re: Operation "Careful Emacs"

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Decision-making about installing packages has a tendency to be rushed
rather than careful.  Important questions may go unasked, or their
answers may zip past with little scrutiny.

We need to improve the quality of these decisions, not the speed.

To do this, I am thinking of introducing some formal steps into the
process of evaluating a package.

We need to send the list of usual questions, and probe until they have
all been answered with full answers.

After that, we should schedule a week or two weeks for discussion of
that package.  With no decision until that period has finished.

Instead of using emacs-devel, we should have a separate list
specifically for these discussions.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)