From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [ Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:06:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20191117113054.49837.qmail@mail.muc.de> <87pnhq7mxg.fsf@gnus.org> <87bltaz9g4.fsf@telefonica.net> <834kz25qp9.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2wexsv1.fsf@telefonica.net> <20191118175639.08d02820@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <874kz0pa9y.fsf@gnus.org> <87sgmjyn60.fsf@gmx.de> <87imnezyt5.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="94592"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, perry@piermont.com To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 21 04:07:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iXcoJ-000OS5-JF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 04:07:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36640 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXcoH-0000ls-Ri for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:07:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49311) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXcnx-0000lh-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:06:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52380) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXcnw-0007ST-6c; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:06:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iXcnu-0004sw-BI; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:06:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Wed, 20 Nov 2019 11:39:55 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242549 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Both true. But I think authentication is an unavoidable burden anyway, > at least if we aim to target a larger audience. Why do we _want_ to "target a larger audience" for bug tracking in particular. Sure, all else being equal we would prefer to offer more convenient interfaces. But is that such an imperative that we would want to pay a price for it? I am skeptical. -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)