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: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:56:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lfgf9sca.fsf@posteo.net> <364e5469-9c41-4453-36e3-5dd2d6c0694e@gmx.com> 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="14254"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Adrien Brochard Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 10 05:58:11 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 1kR61L-0003d9-EY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 05:58:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41462 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR61K-0006Zx-Gj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:58:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39884) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5zG-0003sA-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:56:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5zF-0000WU-ME; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:56:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5zE-0003LW-JN; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:56:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <364e5469-9c41-4453-36e3-5dd2d6c0694e@gmx.com> (message from Adrien Brochard on Fri, 9 Oct 2020 15:52:22 -0400) 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:257300 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. ]]] > The most obvious reason to me is that user error handling is pretty > poor. Because there is no JS, we cannot offer front-end validation, that > means that the backend server is responsible for validating fields > submitted. If we want to learn what users think, we should not limit their responses to a small set of 'valid" possible answers. The plan I designed for inquiries asks users to answer in their own words. -- 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)