From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 21:03:16 +0200 Message-ID: <83zgoopkwb.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33658"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: xenodasein@tutanota.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 25 20:04:23 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n1CL9-0008cz-Cr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 20:04:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33948 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1CL8-0005zH-AY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 14:04:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33066) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1CJv-0005HU-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 14:03:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=57434 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1CJt-000201-OJ; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 14:03:05 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=o3lV95aM+04TErel5eiyKDoRM1v2Jc39YZjmxOILLXA=; b=Iz9nY7z/AeVLJnXAviqK gnQpfOkDDFptK++tiI6/OyySHxKfLpBJ6RytMH907woZwlrxXAVS8cF8riw7UPLIpQz9BnOSXFyoV uQ4IjtEGjOgRaRlauHIQgeSWwAu2yC2l3cJLJvAT/v+BeJknigSdKB08YgO2xGrk+lWYeft50BWih CIRFmMQDeSYr1CY2f0UQd8ahX6Ube3lzT9hC8SuGOvVJvPL/SwLt/e2TZfIWUamWbSiRy4IjQZjsh xzJ635Y2FKwUu1oiCvehJkVPqUenx0f2cUa+v+vslz88Ru/6/iIKynpZP7kI4SmSw3MFJn7WhrDUc mX3DYzBAD9Gabw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3263 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1CJt-0002NI-MV; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 14:03:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: (emacs-devel@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:283239 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 19:49:18 +0100 (CET) > From: xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." > Example: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-08/msg00154.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-08/msg00433.html > > It is one thing wanting to work on "your own" thing.  But making changes > to Emacs just to make that thing more marketable?  Why do I assume so? > This author clearly had the time and ability to make amazing > improvements to Emacs built-in package management process, judging from > their own package.  My intention is not to be confrontational, but it is > sad to think about what could have been achieved... > > I find this highly discourteous, but this is only my opinion, and > overall good done is likely still significant. I don't think I understand what you are saying, but the changes proposed there were installed 6 months later.