Re: Discuss new features/enhancements or large changes for users in emacs-devel [was My resignation from Emacs development]

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > Bug#73853 was not about language-design decisions, it was about
  > deprecating a macro.

I can see two possible meanings for what "Bug#73853" refers
to in that sentenbce:

1. The original bug report which started that thread in bug-gnu-emacs.

2. The discussion thread which started with that bug report.

Could it be that (1) was about deprecating that macro, 
and (2) started off there by wandered into a discussion of
choosing major modes for various programming languages?

I don't know for a fact how that discussion went, but that history
would fit with what has been said about it since.  So I'll suppose
tentatively that was what happened.

While the discussion was about deprecating a macro, discussing it
in a bu report ticket made sense.

Once it changed to be about proposals for controlling major modes,
someone should have moved it to emacs-devel.

Idesally, whoever was ispired by that bug discussion to raise an idea
for controlling major modes should have sent that message to
emacs-devel and started a new threat.  But everyone forgets sometimes.
After one person hadn't remembered to do this, it wasn't too late.
Someone else should have moved and renamed the thread.





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