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  • Hash : 0985d673
    Author : Stefano Lattarini
    Date : 2013-05-16T13:46:17

    Merge branch 'maint'
    
    * maint:
      tests: remove remaining exec bits ('maint' branch)
      tests: remove exec bit from all of them ('micro' branch)
      maint: tests no longer need to have executable bit set
      PLANS: subdir-objects: various updates
    

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  • "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.