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Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map
From: |
Paul R |
Subject: |
Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:41:23 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
> "Juanma Barranquero" wrote:
>
>> I was not talking specifically about recent discussions. It was the
>> feeling gathered after five years of emacs-devel. All user-visible
>> changes cause long threads, heated comments and few decisions.
>
> (I find a killfile improves the signal-to-noise ratio.)
>
> I don't like the "poisonous people" tag, but the following has some
> valid points:
>
> http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2006/07/oscon_how_open_source_projects.html
>
> The premise for their talk was: Attention and focus are your
> scarce resources and you need to protect them. Poisonous people
> tend to distract communities and scatter the attention and focus
> of the people who should continue developing new features or
> fixing bugs. Communities must avoid deadlock by not letting people
> derail forward progress. For instance, people in the community can
> ask endless questions or focus on perfection (in a design or
> feature set) and bogart the attention of developers.
Wow. This is sad to read such words in a "libre", community project
newsgroup. Really sad. But you might never read this, your killfile
protecting you from other people POV.
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, (continued)
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Thomas Lord, 2008/04/11
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, tomas, 2008/04/11
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/11
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Thomas Lord, 2008/04/11
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, David Kastrup, 2008/04/12
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/04/12
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Thomas Lord, 2008/04/12
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, David Kastrup, 2008/04/12
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Thomas Lord, 2008/04/12
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/12
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map,
Paul R <=
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/04/11
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Thomas Lord, 2008/04/10
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Paul R, 2008/04/10
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/10
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/11
- RE: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Drew Adams, 2008/04/10
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/11
- Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/11
- Re: Nit-picking (was: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map), Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/12
- Re: Nit-picking, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/04/12