Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes:
>>
>>> This tells me that this development community (or at least certain
>>> people in it) don't want my contribution for inexplicable reasons, in
>>> particular not technical reasons.  I do not see any possible sensible
>>> definition of "the needs of the Emacs Project" that would lead to the
>>> behavior I've seen from certain people here, so I disagree absolutely
>>> that it could possibly be a misunderstanding on my side.
>>>
>>>
>>> Moreover, I've been warned about emacs-devel by multiple people before,
>>> and about a certain member of it in particular, and I did not believe it
>>> could possibly be this bad.
>>
>> You don't need to speak in riddles.  I am quite used to seeing my name
>> explicitly written in such contexts.
>
> This had nothing to do with you.  The bug report discussion hopefully
> makes it clear who I'm talking about.  Sorry about the misunderstanding,
> really.

Well, presumably Eli then.  If you digged through the Emacs developer
archives of the last 20 years or so, I think you'll easily find about
3000 mails from Eli amounting to "please don't break the MSDOS port of
Emacs gratuitously" and probably 1000 mails amounting to "please don't
sabotage right-to-left typesetting", many in threads of the "why should
we even care about _that_" variety.

In the end, Emacs is better in some respects due to at last someone
taking responsibility for caring about minority interests.  And since
Emacs serves so many interests, it has become second nature to most
developers when such objections are raised to just try addressing them
like everybody else does.

-- 
David Kastrup