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Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list |
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Mon, 30 Nov 2020 07:41:27 +0200 |
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On November 30, 2020 6:40:00 AM GMT+02:00, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
wrote:
> On 30 Nov 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >However, I don't understand what is expected from the active Emacs
> >developers wrt this list. It sounds like they will need to subscribe
> >to this new list, for it to be useful?
>
> I don't think we need to assume that. Emacs's extensibility and
> customizability mean that there are plenty of beneficial suggestions
> that users can make to each other without getting active core
> developers involved. And when a topic does warrant the attention of a
> maintainer, then someone from the new list can come find one (perhaps
> by posting on Emacs Devel if appropriate).
Do you really think this will work? I don't, FWIW. How can a group of people
not involved with development answer non-trivial questions, suggest reporting
useful bugs and feature requests etc.? Even help-gnu-emacs would not be the
same without several developers dwelling there. Posting to emacs-devel is a
slippery path to making this new list a branch of the existing ones, something
that this initiative wants explicitly to avoid. I'm probably missing something
here.
- Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Paul W. Rankin, 2020/11/29
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Karl Fogel, 2020/11/29
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Karl Fogel, 2020/11/30
- RE: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Drew Adams, 2020/11/30
- RE: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Gregory Heytings, 2020/11/30
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Karl Fogel, 2020/11/30
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Paul W. Rankin, 2020/11/30
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Michael Albinus, 2020/11/30