From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: When will emacs 27.1 be officially released? Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:49:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <28BB39D5-074F-4450-A747-C2BFB37AA482@gnu.org> <87pn9g6fuo.fsf@gmail.com> <83bll0ze1x.fsf@gnu.org> <03c328d0-b446-9806-5b7b-1cda10a50eb7@cs.ucla.edu> <835zb8z84k.fsf@gnu.org> <93bffae8-e8e5-2eea-7087-5a894cbfea0c@cs.ucla.edu> <83y2o3xq3k.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30964"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, liwei.ma@gmail.com, kevin.legouguec@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 02 05:49:46 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqEM-0007zW-Nz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2020 05:49:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44020 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqEL-00057T-Ph for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqDs-0004fy-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53432) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqDr-0004S3-2Y; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jqqDp-0001MF-Uy; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:49:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83y2o3xq3k.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:33:03 +0300) 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252620 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. ]]] > Some people just > dislike writing documentation, and there's nothing we can do about it. > As someone wise once told me, each person is a package deal: you get > him or her with all their talents and their idiosyncrasies. There may be some developers who could write documentation for their code if they don't have to make it good, readable English. Maybe we could pair them with others who could take that text and turn it into manual-quality English. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)