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diff --git a/PLANS/README b/PLANS/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..87cb8dc36 --- /dev/null +++ b/PLANS/README @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +"Plans" for future or on-going Automake development. + +The contents is meant to help ensure a more controlled and smooth +development and evolution for Automake, in several ways. + + - Having the plans clearly spelled out should will avoid messy + roadmaps with no clear way forward or with muddy or ill-defined + aims or purposes; a trap this is too easy to fall into. + + - Keeping planned changes cooking and re-hashed for a while should + ensure rough edges are smoothed up, transitions are planned in a + proper way (hopefully avoiding debacles like the AM_MKDIR_PROG_P + deprecation and the AM_CONFIG_HEADER too-abrupt removal), and + "power users" have more chances of getting informed in due time, + thus having all the time to prepare for the changes or raise + objections against them. + + - Having the plans clearly stated and registered in a "centralized" + location should make it more difficult to them to slip through + the cracks, getting forgotten or (worse) only half-implemented. + + - Even for discussions and plans registered on the Bug Tracker + as well, a corresponding entry in the PLANS directory can help + in keeping main ideas summarized, and consensus and/or objections + registered and easily compared. |