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* Important features
** Make it easier to contribute
*** New script to catch common mistakes in patches.
Examples of things to catch are missing or malformed ChangeLog, style
issues in C, Lisp, and Texinfo, etc. There is no need to be overly
ambitious in a first draft, making a start is better than nothing. It
could draw inspiration from checkpatch.pl used by the Linux kernel.
*** New make target or script to run tests for changed files.
This might require some kind of data structure mapping a source file to
the tests which exercise some of the code in that source file. The
first approximation is to run FOO-tests when you modify a file FOO, but
some FOO's get used in many places in the test suite, so this is not a
simple 1:1 relation. Then we could ask contributors to run the relevant
tests as part of the submission process.
*** Automated emails to contributors when their commits make tests fail
Having EMBA or something similar email the guilty parties in case of
new test failures (or maybe even warnings) would be great.
*** Automated testing of patches submitted to the bug tracker
Create a bot that can run the above "check patch" script, and perhaps
even run unit tests, for every patch submitted to the bug tracker, and
then send an automated email with the results. Can EMBA help with this?
** Speed up Elisp execution
*** Speed up function calls