From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Schroeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: maintaining FSF Emacs web page Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 12:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20141203142859.24393.98673@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20141203192721.GE12748@thyrsus.com> <547F6774.50700@cs.ucla.edu> <838uio5vjw.fsf@gnu.org> <20141203211447.GB15111@thyrsus.com> <871toge5zw.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <83388v6hsq.fsf@gnu.org> <87egsftgd5.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com> <83egsf3yci.fsf@gnu.org> <87iohq6nvn.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com> <85fvctkuts.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418128281 15078 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 12:31:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 12:31:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 13:31:16 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyJwh-0005QV-DE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:31:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39466 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyJwh-0002Aa-03 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:31:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44662) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyJwG-00024E-3X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:30:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyJwA-0004Bl-AY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:30:48 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58938) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyJwA-0004AL-4B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:30:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyJw6-00053n-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:30:38 +0100 Original-Received: from 62.12.165.34 ([62.12.165.34]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:30:38 +0100 Original-Received: from alex by 62.12.165.34 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:30:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 62.12.165.34 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179550 Archived-At: Richard Stallman gnu.org> writes: > > One solution to this is to keep the FSF page very short, and have it > > refer to a web page or other docs that we do maintain. > > Currently, that would be http://www.emacswiki.org/ > > I see no benefit in that, only a problem. > > Using CVS is easy, through VC. Meanwhile, since we don't control the > contents of emacswiki.org, it is not the right good place to publish > the text that we do maintain. Is control important? I keep the wiki up and running. I can lock some pages and give out passwords if control is important. If the real issue is a fear of vandalism and spam, then there seems to be little reason to worry: people like me are keeping an eye on Emacs Wiki, keeping it free of vandalism and spam.