From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display slowness that is painful Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:50:12 +0100 Message-ID: <85wtgeks2z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87slr5c78p.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877j8fx43q.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87mzhaqp7p.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87wtgel266.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138888220 28342 80.91.229.2 (2 Feb 2006 13:50:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 13:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 02 14:50:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4eqU-0007IG-B9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:49:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4ejO-0007OG-9d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:42:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4eKl-0001A3-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:17:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4eKV-00019F-Hv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4e6M-0004MD-UT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:02:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F4e5B-00058K-Ri for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:01:05 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1F4e25-0003oY-Lm; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:57:53 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 88ED81C00384; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 10:50:12 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Chong Yidong In-Reply-To: <87wtgel266.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:12:17 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:49922 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > Lest there be any misunderstanding, I appreciate the job you're > doing as the Emacs maintainer, and the fact that you're trying to > maintain a high level of quality for Emacs. But it's extremely > frustrating to participate in a perpetual-motion-machine-like > release process, with a leaky to non-existent feature-freeze, that > never seems to get any closer to the actual release (or even the > pretest!) Not fixing bugs in core functionality is not the way to get release quality. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum