Comment #3 on issue 188 by [email protected]: Please publish bleeding-edge
code to Vim's Mercurial repository
http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/detail?id=188
That would be irresponsible and would waste people's time.
Such code would presumably contain bugs. Those bugs would discourage users
from using that branch in their daily work. If it was an easily-encountered
bug, several users would discover it and spend time investigating it,
documenting it and reporting it. Bram would have to read and investigate
each report. The bugs reported might well be bugs of which Bram is already
aware and would have fixed but for the pressure to release early. There is
a lot of work involved in managing bug reports. By releasing code too
early, Bram's productivity would decrease as would the rate of improvement
of Vim.
Bram doesn't wait until the code is "perfect" before releasing it, but he
is a careful developer and project manager and so far his judgement has
been pretty good.
All software contains bugs, but knowingly releasing software before it is
ready is a bad idea.
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