Re: Monthy emacs-devel digest, similar to "This month in Org"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 09:16:56 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> I proposed to drop some kind of monthly thread here, on emacs-devel, in
> >> case if you or other contributors want to encourage feedback or ask for
> >> help from more users.
> >
> > Not sure I understand: if we want to ask for help, we just post the
> > request.  There's no need for any monthly thread to post such
> > requests.
> 
> How can people who are not actively reading emacs-devel notice such
> requests?

But you also suggest to do so in a special thread on emacs-devel, so
how is that different?

> For example,
> 5E7F2A94-4377-45C0-8541-7F59F3B54BA1@gmail.com/">https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/5E7F2A94-4377-45C0-8541-7F59F3B54BA1@gmail.com/
> does not clearly indicate in the subject that it is asking for ideas. In
> other cases, just one of the messages deep inside threads may ask for
> feedback, which is even harder to notice.
> 
> If the help requests are collected into a digest, it will be much easier
> to follow for casual readers (the majority).

Sounds like a misunderstanding: I wasn't objecting to have that in a
digest, I was only talking about a monthly thread one emacs-devel.