From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:19:30 +0000 Message-ID: <87siq4aqq5.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> References: <52FCD2B4.5080006@yandex.ru> <52FD9F1D.50205@yandex.ru> <83mwhucg1h.fsf@gnu.org> <878ute589i.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83d2iqc84m.fsf@gnu.org> <87wqgxkcr9.fsf@yandex.ru> <834n41db0d.fsf@gnu.org> <52FE2985.4070703@yandex.ru> <831tz5daes.fsf@gnu.org> <8738jlohd6.fsf@yandex.ru> <83txc1bl83.fsf@gnu.org> <5300189A.9090208@yandex.ru> <83wqgv9fbj.fsf@gnu.org> <20140216180712.236069f6@forcix.jorgenschaefer.de> <83sirj9cyp.fsf@gnu.org> <20140217203145.71a849f7@forcix.jorgenschaefer.de> <837g8t8ouc.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395915592 6568 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2014 10:19:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:19:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jorgen Schaefer , dgutov@yandex.ru To: =?utf-8?Q?Micha=C5=82?= Nazarewicz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 27 11:20:01 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 1WT7Pl-0001EV-2y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:20:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52646 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WT7Pk-0007B1-LA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 06:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WT7Pc-000705-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 06:19:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WT7PY-0000C8-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 06:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:40292) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WT7PX-0000Be-Rb; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 06:19:47 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129]) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1WT7PT-0004Z3-E1; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:19:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost (jangai.ncl.ac.uk [10.66.67.223]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s2RAJgwK005845 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:19:42 GMT In-Reply-To: (=?utf-8?Q?=22Micha=C5=82?= Nazarewicz"'s message of "Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:51:49 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.22 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:171026 Archived-At: Micha=C5=82 Nazarewicz writes: > 2014-02-17 21:29 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii : >> What red tape? Emacs is about the most red-tape-less project as you >> can find, as far as the procedure of admitting a patch is considered. > > I'm a bit late to the party, and haven't yet gone through the whole threa= d, > but let me chip in my 2 rappens anyway. ;) > > What I found a bit discouraging is lack of responses to my patches. Admit= tedly, > after re-reading etc/CONTRIBUTE I discovered I was sending them to the wr= ong > place (emacs-devel instead of bug-gnu-emacs) but still it would be nice if > someone yelled at me for using the wrong mailing list. Something like the gitorious merge request facilities would help here. Then you would be able to see that your request had gone in. Mailing lists are good for some things but maintaining a database is probably not one of them. Phil