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: More metaproblem Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 23:26:55 +0200 Message-ID: <83d27z3y3k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141203142859.24393.98673@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20141203192721.GE12748@thyrsus.com> <547F6774.50700@cs.ucla.edu> <838uio5vjw.fsf@gnu.org> <20141203211447.GB15111@thyrsus.com> <871toge5zw.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <83388v6hsq.fsf@gnu.org> <85zjb3q06b.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83k32748p5.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417728423 9873 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2014 21:27:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 21:27:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 04 22:26:57 2014 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 1XwdvM-0000GZ-KE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:26:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwdvM-00049o-76 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:26:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38548) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwdvD-00042I-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:26:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwdv8-0001UZ-8a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:26:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:43839) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwdv7-0001UM-Ry for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:26:42 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NG200O00TKGLL00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 23:22:22 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NG200OMZU1AG010@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 23:22:22 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 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:178857 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:43:47 -0500 > > The formatting of references to revisions is a nitpick and should simply > not be mentioned anywhere. You've elided your original text, to which I responded: > And it should be kept as short as possible (e.g. things like formatting > of references to particular revisions is the kind of nitpicking we > don't need in there). "Things LIKE formatting of references", IOW not _just_ those references. If you meant _only_ those references, we are in violent agreement. But other small details like that do need to be mentioned, if we want to standardize and codify the process, and have it documented. > > Neither do I see why would we need to restrict ourselves like that. A > > document with a clear structure and a list of topics at the beginning > > can be longish and still useful. > > People's attention span is much too limited for that. They don't have to read all of the stuff, only what they need at any given moment.