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: Confused by y-or-n-p Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:07:12 -0500 Message-ID: References: <834kkcr1eo.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0t38g1z.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83czyvkts6.fsf@gnu.org> <87bleetirr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87y2hhri3n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83pn2tkfg8.fsf@gnu.org> <871rf7ippu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83a6trg6mc.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtxqcauz.fsf@gnu.org> <83turva0y2.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="11021"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: juri@linkov.net, rudalics@gmx.at, stefankangas@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 10 07:08:08 2021 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 1kyTtY-0002kz-FQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:08:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34142 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyTtX-0003Ip-Gq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56676) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyTsh-0002fR-KZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:07:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43981) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyTsg-00057Y-JL; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:07:14 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kyTse-0003Tq-0M; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:07:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: (emacs-devel@gnu.org) 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:262833 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 proposal was not to mention such changes in NEWS (which is already the > case), it was to use the existing criterion used to add entries in NEWS > ("Any change that matters to end-users should have an entry in etc/NEWS", > see CONTRIBUTE) as a basis for an explicit guideline: "In principle, any > such change should, unless it is an added feature, either require setting > a variable to be enabled, or be reversible by setting a variable." I'm sorry I read too fast before. Now I see your idea, and I think it is a good one. One of my proposals is equivalent to adding this to your idea. If it is made reversible. then the people who add it should also post on emacs-devel about it. -- 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)