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: Metaproblem, part 3 Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:50:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83wq662ls9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141203142859.24393.98673@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20141203193110.GF12748@thyrsus.com> <20141203215426.GA15791@thyrsus.com> <87ppbzplcw.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <83iohr48kr.fsf@gnu.org> <87egseqsa6.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <831toe4aai.fsf@gnu.org> <87wq66paca.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417791037 20407 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 14:50:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 14:50:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, joaotavora@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 15:50:29 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 1XwuDF-0005cA-DL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:50:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50762 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwuDF-0000Dq-3q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:50:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53267) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwuD7-0000Cp-9A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:50:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwuD2-00086K-2I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:50:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:59478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwuD1-00082t-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:50:16 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NG400E00626J000@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:50:14 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NG400DV26JPXV90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:50:14 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87wq66paca.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:178931 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: , , > Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:09:09 +0000 > > Oh, well, the idea is that when someone wants to do something they get a > person to talk to, to help them through, away from the main line traffic > of emacs-devel. If people would feel better getting advice in private email, they can ask for it, and I don't see any problem with that. I know I had a few requests like that in the past. > I have commit rights to ELPA (and I guess therefore Emacs core). I've > used the former, but never the latter, because I am worried about > screwing things up. I never worried about this with cider, or clojure > mode because I committed to my own repo and send a pull request (several > of which were refused, with reasonable explanations as to why). You can always post the patch to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, if you aren't sure it's good to go, and ask for a review. Thanks.