Re: New Package for NonGNU-ELPA: clojure-ts-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: dmitry@gutov.dev, jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de, philipk@posteo.net,
>  luangruo@yahoo.com, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2023 11:34:42 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Confirm. I use Github mostly via email, exactly how you described.
> >> The annoying thing is inability to open new issues via email, though
> >> "forge" package allows to do it from Emacs.
> >
> > Is that all that annoys you about GitHub's email?  What about the fact
> > that you get a lot of useless notifications that cannot be selectively
> > turned off?
> 
> I can turn them off selectively in my MUA.
> IMHO, this is not any different from how I approach mailing lists - most
> of the discussions on ML are not interesting to me and I simply filter
> them out. I think Gnus scoring is relevant (although I use different
> approach).

How is this consistent with complaints about the difficulties of using
a MUA in sophisticated ways?

> > Users of GitHub don't write their posts thinking about email
> > recipients, they evidently assume that everyone is looking at the
> > discussion via a Web browser.  Therefore, the email notifications are
> > no more than indications of "something happened", they don't support
> > intelligent and efficient participation in the discussion without the
> > need of reading all of it via the browser.
> 
> I do not find much difference when reading Github discussion from
> browser vs. from email. They are equally flat in both cases, sometimes
> creating confusion.

Really?  Just look at this discussion: each message clearly shows to
what it responds by quoting that text.