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Speaking for myself and not the team (I haven't discussed this with anyone else), here are some things I'd like to consider:

- We shouldn't try to programmatically determine what a "minor" edit is; in the right context, one character is a major edit.  Designation as minor needs to be human-powered.

- However, the system should have some sort of threshold (TBD) beyond which, no matter what the submitter says, we don't treat it as minor.  Even though we trust the editor's intentions, if you're overhauling most of the answer, it's good to make that visible for others to look over.  Besides, it might change some votes.

- Edits to other people's posts should always generate notifications to the author, major or minor.  (I believe this is the case now at Codidact, so I'm saying: don't change that for minor edits.  People should always have a chance to see what words someone else is putting in their mouths.  Somewhere Else they don't notify for "minor" edits, and that's sometimes been a problem.)

- I think we generally want edits to your *own* posts to bump.  Vandalism happens, long-game spam happens, and if it's your own post then no one else is going to be notified.  I think we could mitigate this by setting some sort of time limit -- maybe we only bump if it's been 24 or 48 or (TBD) hours since the last bumping edit?  So you can do that flurry of fixes over the course of a day and only bump it once, but if you come back three weeks later and edit again, it'll bump.  Or...maybe we say that if you have the edit privilege then you can make non-bumping edits to your own posts, but if your edit to someone else's post would have had to go through review, your self-edits bump?  Thinking out loud here...

These are ideas for discussion; they're not ready to be proposed rules yet.  That last one, in particular, needs a lot more thought.

Opinions?