From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch-yank-char Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 16:08:03 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <874qr7l59b.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <20040426230345.GA8594@fencepost> <877jw2cq4f.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87ad0xvo33.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <871xm8wv6j.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87n04u77z8.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87k6zygjff.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <8765bi75vp.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87hdv1c1lm.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87y8od60if.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87zn8t6v8z.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87hdv15q09.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87u0z1xasi.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <874qr15m5a.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87ad0p48mi.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083703337 7532 80.91.224.253 (4 May 2004 20:42:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 20:42:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 22:42:08 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BL6jw-0006HR-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 22:42:08 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BL6jv-0001Qu-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 22:42:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BL6jT-0003sM-DZ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BL6S1-0006LZ-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BL6JQ-0003hZ-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:15:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BL6Cz-0000sK-6d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:08:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BL6Cx-0003Jf-Nf; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:08:03 -0400 Original-To: kfogel@red-bean.com In-reply-to: <87ad0p48mi.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> (message from Karl Fogel on 03 May 2004 14:24:05 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22747 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22747 Is there a pre-existing mechanism by which such polls are normally conducted, or do we improvise every time? There is no specific mechanism. We create a mailing list that drops mail into a file, we publish a message asking users to say what they prefer *and why*, and we wait. Files with results from previous polls should be in /com/archive, and these files usually start with the posting to announce the poll. Looking at a few of those, it should be possible to get a good idea of how to write the posting. I'd like someone to draft the posting, then I will edit it and post it.