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Re: My resignation from Emacs development


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: My resignation from Emacs development
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 09:53:25 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 22:52:55 -0500
> 
>   > You seem to imply that some kind of rule-breaking has happened.  I don't 
>   > think this is so--unless the rule were "No one may make any change 
>   > unless everyone agrees to it."  The technical matters in question have 
>   > been thoroughly discussed.
> 
> I think the crucial question was _where_ this discussion took place.
> It was in the bug reporting list, not emacs-devel.
> 
> I have complained before that the practice of discussing a feature
> change on the bug list caused feature change ideas not to be
> recognized as such.  People should help notify all of us
> that we are discussing a feature change.

When such discussions happen on the bug list, we generally try to add
to the discussion people who might be relevant or whose opinions we
want to hear.  In other cases, someone insists to move the discussion
to emacs-devel.

Of course, mistakes can and do happen.  But the understanding that
some issues need broader discussions does exist, and there's no
intentional avoidance of that for some covert reasons.

Please also keep in mind that a person interested in some subject
could be off-line for some reason, not reading any of the Emacs lists,
when the discussion happens.  So even making sure all such discussions
happen on emacs-devel is not a guarantee that everyone who should be
involved will be.  (I do agree that emacs-devel is a better place for
discussing important changes, I'm just saying it is not a panacea.)



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