From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: GNU Project [was: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like] Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:57:38 +1300 Message-ID: <18333.35570.901458.570129@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <20071230122217.3CA84830B9A@snark.thyrsus.com> <4pd9g15e.fsf@blue.sea.net> <87r6g7z3m2.fsf@everybody.org> <87odbbngr8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20080125231308.57E9A30303@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <873aslsck9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <85bq77yxpf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <18332.58450.182059.702244@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201507108 27695 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2008 07:58:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:58:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 28 08:58:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JJOt8-0000we-19 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJOsh-0004nP-7y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:58:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJOsc-0004lv-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:58:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJOsa-0004k2-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:58:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJOsa-0004jx-NY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:58:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJOsV-0001O2-9u; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:58:03 -0500 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJOsQ-0008UL-JB; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:57:58 -0500 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (159.61.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.61.159]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5E13DA707; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:57:42 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D8C6A8FC6D; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:57:39 +1300 (NZDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 23.0.60.5 X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87694 Archived-At: > I'm interested to know what it means to be part of the GNU Project > because I work on both Emacs and GDB but, in practice, I can see no > formal synergy between the two, or preference towards each other. > > We should be designing them both to work well together. For instance, > the GDB developers should pay attention to what your Emacs work needs. Yes, but that much would be true for any other free software project like kdevelop or cgdb. From reading http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html it seems to basically imply availability ftp.gnu.org on and consistency in coding, documentation and licencing. With regard to the latter, it sounds a bit like a certification. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob