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> From: dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:38:44 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, danflscr@gmail.com, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> 
> * Newcomer suggests PR-based workflow citing youth.  Check.
> 
> * Veterans chime in, citing the obvious reasons-for and the
> political reasons-against.  Check.
> 
> * EZ cites his *sui generis* argument that a web-based workflow is actually
> *more* work than mailing patches around.  Check.
> 
> * Someone announces his intention to begin the necessary work.  Check.
> 
> * Someone remarks how discussion on emacs-devel repeats itself.  Now checked.

What's the alternative? tell that "newcomer" we've been there and
please go away?  That's unkind and unbecoming.

Besides, there's always hope that this time someone will actually do
the job.  It did happen in the past.