Re: Please stop this

[Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>]

On 22 December 2021 06:30:30 CET, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> That will not happen, as I'm sure you must understand.  It would be
>> completely counter-productive, and only serve to harm and obstruct
>> important ongoing work.
>>
>> Moreover, I don't understand how Emacs would ever be successful if the
>> reply to volunteers coming here hoping to help should be "we discussed
>> this N months ago, go away".  Luckily, our policy is not that, but to
>> encourage and help them contribute in the most useful way.
>
>AFAICS, discussions about this topic tend to turn into a big runaway
>flamefest, usually starting from simple questions such as "what's
>missing".  This happens every single time someone posts something like
>this and the amount of information gets repeated is frightening, so I
>hope these discussions will crop up less often than every two or so
>months.  Not that I'm opposed to healthy discussion, but the usual
>result of this topic is not that.
>
>Just my two cents though, so feel free to disregard that.
>
>> Yes, something very significant has changed.  Two people have now agreed
>> to start working on this.
>
>Good to hear.
>
>> If you don't want to see this topic may I recommend using an email
>> client that allows you to filter threads you are not interested in?
>
>I already have such topics split to a separate group in Gnus, but
>unfortunately the subject line regexp didn't match on "SourceHut", like
>last time when it only matched on "migrate" and not "migration".
>
>Thanks.

Well, apologies if you feel I waste your time. I have no interest in participating in such a "flame fest", as I feel I have not done before. 

Theo