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Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug'
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug' |
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Wed, 11 May 2016 20:23:26 -0400 |
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> The answer _might_ be the same each time. Or it might be the
> same _most_ times. The point is to give a user the chance to
> _decide whether_ to be asked each time. Some users might not
> want to be asked each time.
How many times a day is a person likely to report an Emacs bug? Is
there anyone who reports bugs at an average rate of even one bug per
day? I doubt it.
Saving a person an unwanted question at such rare intervals is not
worth enough to matter.
The two things that do matter are
* Privacy.
* Reporting more of the possibly useful data.
The balance between these will vary, so it makes
sense to ask the user to judge it each time.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug', Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/09
- Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug', Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/05/09
- Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug', Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/09
- Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug', Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/05/09
- Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug', Dmitry Gutov, 2016/05/09
- Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug', Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/05/09
- Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug', Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/09
- Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug', Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/05/09
- Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug', Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/05/09
- Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug', Glenn Morris, 2016/05/10