From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs development Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 20:43:50 +0200 Message-ID: <83d253cdg9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mqfdipf.fsf@gmail.com> <87385zo9vr.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87oaon7bbx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83k2zbcwur.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3tjh2pq.fsf@zigzag.favinet> <83h9ufcuw7.fsf@gnu.org> <87mw47gx9u.fsf@zigzag.favinet> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424544264 32353 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2015 18:44:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 18:44:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 21 19:44:17 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YPF2G-0008KZ-J9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:44:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YPF2F-0001KX-Mp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:44:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36194) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YPF1y-0001JE-HX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:44:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YPF1v-0004ay-CE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:43:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:44961) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YPF1v-0004an-3z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:43:55 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NK400900X9IGB00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 20:42:17 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NK400LVDXAENWE0@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 20:42:17 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87mw47gx9u.fsf@zigzag.favinet> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183360 Archived-At: > From: Thien-Thi Nguyen > Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 15:22:05 +0100 > > I'm not really sure I understand what these relationships > are, or why are they important. > > Me too (re relationships), which is why it behooves those > involved to state them explicitly (if possible). There are many issues that might or might not be related to Emacs; we don't normally describe them just because they might. You could help understanding how these are related, by posting questions that might bother newcomers, for which there are no ready answers in the available documentation. > I think it is related in that a newcomer's contributions may > belong better in one repo or another, or even apart from Emacs > (e.g., posted to gnu-emacs-sources only), due to relationships > and expectations. We only have one repository these days.