From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: strange emacs 21.4 on ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/emacs
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:42:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhdkoumtd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c50d53$Blat.v2.4$3d003e80@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:24:58 +0200")
>> Am I the only one who finds himself very much surprised that even though
>> he's a fairly active contributor and reads emacs-devel,
>> emacs-pretest-bug, gnu.emacs.help, gnus.emacs.bug, gnu.emacs.announce,
>> and a few more places, he has not seen any announcement (let alone
>> discussion) of this new release?
> I'm not surprised: it takes time for the announcement to get from
> Richard's mail to gnu.org servers and from there to propagate to the
> news groups. On top of that, gnu.emacs.announce was in the past known
> to have problems with announcements.
Well, I'm still surprised that the only mention of this decision was only
sent to something like gnu.emacs.announce which is known to be at
best flaky.
I would have appreciated some warning *beforehand* in emacs-devel.
Just to ackowledge that we actually exist. But I guess the method used
reflects the fact that we simply have no say whatsoever in those matters.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-07 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-07 10:45 strange emacs 21.4 on ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/emacs Juan LEON Lahoz Garcia
2005-02-07 11:52 ` Romain Francoise
2005-02-07 11:59 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-07 13:54 ` Juan LEON Lahoz Garcia
2005-02-07 14:35 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-02-07 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-07 15:33 ` Jan D.
2005-02-07 15:37 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-07 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-07 16:40 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-07 17:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-07 21:56 ` Jérôme Marant
2005-02-07 22:44 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-08 8:20 ` Jérôme Marant
2005-02-07 16:02 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-07 16:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-02-07 20:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-02-07 20:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-02-08 11:46 ` Richard Stallman
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