From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [ Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:53:24 -0500 Message-ID: <20191120185324.42d7aa0d@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20191117113054.49837.qmail@mail.muc.de> <87pnhq7mxg.fsf@gnus.org> <87bltaz9g4.fsf@telefonica.net> <834kz25qp9.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2wexsv1.fsf@telefonica.net> <20191118175639.08d02820@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <874kz0pa9y.fsf@gnus.org> <87sgmjyn60.fsf@gmx.de> <875zjelte0.fsf@gnus.org> <871ru2zubp.fsf@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="112892"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes , Lars Ingebrigtsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 21 00:53:51 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iXZnC-000TD1-Ss for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:53:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35122 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXZnB-0004HX-Il for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:53:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55054) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXZmu-0004HE-O5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:53:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXZmt-00083z-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:53:32 -0500 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([166.84.7.14]:34320) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXZmt-00082s-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:53:31 -0500 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4663104; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:53:25 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E6E22DEA36; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:53:24 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <871ru2zubp.fsf@gmx.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 166.84.7.14 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242547 Archived-At: On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:00:10 +0100 Michael Albinus wrote: > We could not identify the author. All bugs would have the same one, > with the same email address. Discussions (with automated email > replies) wouldn't work. Software is mutable; free software even more so. If it's important enough to allow random people to submit bug reports, the code can be modified to make that practical. Saying that it's "impossible" to use Gitlab because it lacks a feature we could write is unreasonable. Saying "we will need to add the following feature" is more constructive. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com