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  1. "Plans" for future or on-going Automake development.
  2. The contents is meant to help ensure a more controlled and smooth
  3. development and evolution for Automake, in several ways.
  4. - Having the plans clearly spelled out should will avoid messy
  5. roadmaps with no clear way forward or with muddy or ill-defined
  6. aims or purposes; a trap this is too easy to fall into.
  7. - Keeping planned changes cooking and re-hashed for a while should
  8. ensure rough edges are smoothed up, transitions are planned in a
  9. proper way (hopefully avoiding debacles like the AM_MKDIR_PROG_P
  10. deprecation and the AM_CONFIG_HEADER too-abrupt removal), and
  11. "power users" have more chances of getting informed in due time,
  12. thus having all the time to prepare for the changes or raise
  13. objections against them.
  14. - Having the plans clearly stated and registered in a "centralized"
  15. location should make it more difficult to them to slip through
  16. the cracks, getting forgotten or (worse) only half-implemented.
  17. - Even for discussions and plans registered on the Bug Tracker
  18. as well, a corresponding entry in the PLANS directory can help
  19. in keeping main ideas summarized, and consensus and/or objections
  20. registered and easily compared.