Daniel Shahaf wrote on Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 04:43:19 +0000:
> Julian Foad wrote on Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 20:23:29 +0000:
> > Daniel Sahlberg wrote:
> > >[...] I will try to build a release for myself and use it for dev work.
> > Thank you Daniel.
> >
> > I'm wondering if I (or we) need to do more to facilitate evaluation. I'm
> > thinking of things like adding some feedback to tell the user what it's
> > doing ("fetching missing pristines now..."), maybe at an extra verbose
> > level during this evaluation phase to help users understand it; finding out
> > if any of the outstanding issues need fixing in order to be able to use it
> > productively; maybe getting binaries built and distributed if that helps;
> > maybe we can supply more succinct user documentation than what I wrote so
> > far?
>
> I think what we need now is users willing and able to test this. Once
> we do, we can figure out what we need to do in order to make it easier
> for them to test it, whether it's write docs, or add notifications, or
> build binaries, or…
>
> For starters, ourselves. Is HEAD of the branch good enough that devs
> with use-cases can start to try it in their real use-case wc's? It
> won't be possible to downgrade f32 to f31, but if we want, say, to make
> pristines-on-demand toggleable within a format,
(That's SVN-4889.)
> we can implement that in
> f33 and leave f32 as "never appeared in a release".
>
> I'll also mention asciinema. It's basically script(1) into a video
> hosted online. It might be instructive for us to watch an asciinema
> session of someone trying this branch for the first time. It's about as
> near as we can get to standing behind their shoulder, without actually
> sharing a machine with them and watching a shared tmux(1) session.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel
