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: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:57:36 -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> <87im8f951f.fsf@gnus.org> <83lfdacapo.fsf@gnu.org> <87im8d6q4q.fsf@gnus.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="17549"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: juri@linkov.net, rudalics@gmx.at, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 13 16:58:47 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 1kziXm-0004Qb-Sv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:58:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51840 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kziXl-0002pS-SH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:58:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48934) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kziWj-0001YO-T1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58604) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kziWi-0002qm-Ig; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:57:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kziWe-0004fE-O4; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:57:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:09:18 -0500) 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:263035 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. ]]] > > Not always. We just had a case where there wasn't. I am simply trying > > to ensure that the discussion will happen before the next release. > Yes, that's been clear from the beginning. > We just disagree, The reason I think it matters whether the discussion happens before the next release, or after, is that I was told that after a release there is a presumption in favor of not reverting the change that was made. It adds up to a bureaucratic pitfall you can get stuck in for not reading all the bug report mail. We can't please everyone, but it is especially frustrating to be told that your complaint will be disregarded because it is too late. -- 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)