From: Samuel El-Borai <samuel.elborai@gmail.com>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 16:09:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACivhyRhwqRkRRHUBCQe_ynj+cAAF3kGg0ORnA2yHqon5h710A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140109140226.57D6C38085A@snark.thyrsus.com>
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I don't know if it's The True Probleme that, if solved will bring to emacs
a whole new batch of serious developers ready to spend their life to
improve it.
I don't think it is the case.
But I'm with you on this issue. It's would be great to leave the jokes
outside the "real" data.
2014/1/9 Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
> This is an issue completely orthogonal to the git transition, but
> also motivated by my concern that the Emacs codebase and project raise
> needless barriers to contribution.
>
> /etc is a mess. Over the years it's become a dumping ground for
> miscellany. There are no fewer that four different files of
> miscellaneous jokes! And a cookie recipe! And...stuff.
>
> I think this matters because newbies who try to browse it get lost.
> Important things like the GNU Manifesto (yes, I agree it should
> be treated as important despite my well-known disagreements with it)
> are half-submerged in trivia, clutter, and files that only programs
> rather than humans care about.
>
> I propose to fix this with a reorganization. /etc should be the data
> directory for files used by Lisp and programs in the suite. The files
> meant exclusively for human browsing - the jokes, the cookie recipe,
> the Manifesto, the hacking guides - should move to a new directory
> designated for such content.
>
> That directory should have a proper README of it own mapping the
> content, so newbies can quickly grasp what is there and what they
> might want to look at.
>
> Discuss.
> --
> <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
>
> "The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to
> destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create...."
> -- Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819.
>
>
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-09 14:02 RFC - cleaning up /etc Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-09 14:48 ` Samuel El-Borai
2014-01-09 15:09 ` Samuel El-Borai [this message]
2014-01-09 16:57 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-09 17:42 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-09 19:50 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 14:35 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-10 15:51 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-11 7:15 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-11 10:17 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-11 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-11 10:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-11 20:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-11 20:59 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-11 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-11 21:27 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 0:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-12 0:20 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 0:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 3:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 1:06 ` Progress report on git-blame (was: RFC - cleaning up /etc) David Kastrup
2014-01-25 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 8:59 ` Progress report on git-blame David Kastrup
2014-01-25 9:21 ` martin rudalics
2014-01-25 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 10:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-20 18:33 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 18:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-25 18:30 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 18:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-25 18:59 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 19:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-25 20:02 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 21:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 14:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-27 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 21:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 23:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-26 1:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-26 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-26 22:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 6:30 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-26 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 8:28 ` David Engster
2014-01-25 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 3:03 ` RFC - cleaning up /etc Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 13:46 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-12 19:17 ` Glenn Morris
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