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> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:41:09 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
> cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>         rms@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
> 
> A rule is not a mathematical law, it's an action guideline.

That's not the kind of "rule" we are discussing here, please re-read
the thread from its beginning.  I said long ago that I'm okay with a
guideline (and we actually already have it and act on it).

The proposed rule is very different: it says that if the announcement
and the discussion didn't happen, the change cannot go in.