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: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:24:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877dbpvsee.fsf@yahoo.com> <87ee5wutyr.fsf@yahoo.com> <87a6gjhcc0.fsf@posteo.net> <87zgojskna.fsf@yahoo.com> <87y243pouk.fsf@telefonica.net> <87v8z7sgsy.fsf@yahoo.com> <87tuerpm20.fsf@telefonica.net> <87mtkjsevb.fsf@yahoo.com> <48488c37-1712-c83a-3464-80365d746a5a@yandex.ru> <8735masxtw.fsf@yahoo.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="15579"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 31 05:26:06 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 1n39UT-0003sn-Q4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 05:26:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42162 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39UR-0007ur-SR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:26:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39Sv-0006pB-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:24:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=38574 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39Su-0006j4-2i; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:24:28 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=HglJ2e4e8qaz8+5DSXFJRtw9v2UnfWfZkPhrlehgNPE=; b=D1e2vm1iMjf0 +z9iws0oL0H1D2xnVjzysrb9dDEt/ysI7QnE5usA58d4mXNMiAUGG/mTOL0l/ZrieuVi6wfftbnqD 7o2riI1gdvGOLkUIgafYc2R/fRMa6UHCho4HF5m/M447DFYCwJ9R20MofzdWP4pfaBUrk91FDzjn0 ZN9doeMlc3Hb0G3zGNPoje2s6CHt+7uqQ72Fo+CgJG8gPy2FT1ERUSBEMPco6KUOeJpWZ77ouybTV kQidqwKq+emxFKQ4jfcvePwY28FJdKfjtucyhIOyBmHYT353STtIFed8fkLZ658Wrr+w2LLd7pU/z aB6gZy7i/Z7N60JQQhMzYg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39Su-0004cp-5T; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:24:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8735masxtw.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Thu, 30 Dec 2021 09:09:15 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:283702 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. ]]] > Let's use WebKit an an example: to report a bug, you have to decide > which component to report a bug to first (or what "New Bugs" is for), > which means you have to read their Bug Writing Guidelines and their > "writing a good bug report" guidelines. We could do this -- it would take some work. What I am not sure of is whether it would be an improvement. It would be useful to get people to read our own bug reporting guidelines, but it would discourage some people. Which effect is bigger? It would be hard to predict or even to measure. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)