From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:34:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ipgtgkus.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PKzkr.150147$KQ2.114088@newsfe15.iad>
> From: Chiron <chiron613.no.spam.@no.spam.please.gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:46:07 GMT
>
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:10:48 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> From: Chiron <chiron613.no.spam.@no.spam.please.gmail.com> Date: Sat,
> >> 21 Apr 2012 12:43:45 GMT
> >>
> >> In what way do the maintainers of emacs benefit from having more users?
> >
> > If you ever maintained a package that others used, you must know that
> > satisfying your users is a very powerful incentive. Frankly, I'm
> > surprised to see this question asked at all.
>
> Well, I'm just going by the behavior of the current maintainers.
What behavior? Facts, please.
> They aren't making the changes that people seem to want - at least
> not the ones that might gather lots of users.
Which changes? Facts, please!
> Satisfying users may be a powerful incentive, but it certainly is not the
> only one. Apparently, it is not the one that motivates the current
> maintainers.
Without the facts to back this up, I would not consider this
"conclusion" valid.
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Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-18 12:00 Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer Xah Lee
2012-04-18 12:31 ` Joe Corneli
2012-04-18 16:57 ` Steinar Bang
2012-04-18 17:33 ` Ludwig, Mark
2012-04-18 18:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-04-18 18:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-04-19 21:08 ` Steinar Bang
[not found] ` <mailman.169.1334770417.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-18 21:11 ` Chiron
2012-04-18 23:56 ` Ludwig, Mark
2012-04-19 10:34 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-04-18 17:01 ` Mark Skilbeck
2012-04-18 19:33 ` Aaron Meurer
2012-04-18 20:22 ` Deniz Dogan
2012-04-19 5:55 ` Kevin Rodgers
2012-04-19 5:58 ` Kevin Rodgers
2012-04-19 20:47 ` Bug Dout
2012-04-19 21:11 ` Chiron
2012-04-19 22:41 ` Ludwig, Mark
[not found] ` <mailman.260.1334875302.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-20 3:27 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-04-20 3:53 ` Aaron Meurer
2012-04-20 11:08 ` Fritz Wuehler
2012-04-20 11:48 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.304.1334922534.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-21 3:53 ` Chiron
2012-04-21 8:16 ` Joost Kremers
2012-04-21 12:43 ` Chiron
2012-04-21 12:47 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-21 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.373.1335012467.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-21 14:42 ` Chiron
2012-04-21 14:49 ` Joe Corneli
[not found] ` <mailman.381.1335019797.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-21 15:04 ` Chiron
[not found] ` <mailman.379.1335017454.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-21 14:46 ` Chiron
2012-04-21 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-04-21 16:15 ` Dan Espen
2012-04-21 16:58 ` Chiron
[not found] ` <mailman.389.1335022448.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-21 16:32 ` Chiron
2012-04-21 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.396.1335027140.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-21 17:09 ` Chiron
2012-04-21 17:36 ` Dan Espen
2012-04-21 23:01 ` Bastien
2012-04-23 11:52 ` Joost Kremers
2012-04-24 7:40 ` rusi
2012-04-24 11:35 ` Richard Riley
2012-04-24 13:44 ` ken
2012-04-25 10:39 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-04-25 12:41 ` ken
2012-04-25 21:51 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.42.1335390728.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-26 17:25 ` rusi
2012-04-26 17:48 ` Bastien
[not found] ` <mailman.619.1335350542.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-26 19:08 ` Xah Lee
2012-04-24 14:33 ` Dan Espen
2012-04-24 18:40 ` PJ Weisberg
2012-04-21 8:36 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-04-21 9:48 ` Joe Corneli
[not found] ` <mailman.362.1334997514.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-21 12:35 ` Chiron
2012-04-21 13:31 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-04-21 15:01 ` Chiron
2012-04-21 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.378.1335017298.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-21 14:52 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-04-21 15:15 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-21 16:03 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-21 14:59 ` Chiron
2012-04-21 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.390.1335022565.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-21 16:47 ` Chiron
2012-04-21 17:07 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.398.1335028190.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-21 17:14 ` Chiron
2012-04-21 17:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.401.1335030473.751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-21 18:03 ` Chiron
2012-04-21 21:34 ` Jason Earl
2012-04-21 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-21 15:03 ` Chiron
2012-04-20 11:31 ` Martin
2012-04-21 3:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-21 3:25 ` Dan Espen
2012-04-21 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-21 16:08 ` Dan Espen
2012-04-21 16:50 ` Chiron
2012-04-21 17:30 ` Dan Espen
2012-04-21 22:13 ` Ludwig, Mark
2012-04-22 10:00 ` Petter Gustad
2012-04-22 10:27 ` Richard Riley
2012-06-12 19:25 ` Nikolai Alekseev
2012-06-12 19:24 ` Nikolai Alekseev
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