From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Simple Tasks, new TODO category Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:51:41 -0800 Message-ID: <200801192051.m0JKpkY9026897@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <200801192020.m0JKKUWl017748@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87k5m5k0xi.fsf@rabkins.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200776069 4140 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2008 20:54:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:54:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yoni Rabkin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 19 21:54:47 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 1JGKi9-0000CA-Vd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:54:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGKhk-00083U-2l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:54:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGKhX-0007x0-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:54:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGKhV-0007vP-IC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:54:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGKhV-0007vC-B1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:54:01 -0500 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGKhU-0004fi-Ti for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:54:01 -0500 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1201380707.11605@AyktJQutt+j+pAaQM43U0A Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m0JKpkY9026897; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:51:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87k5m5k0xi.fsf@rabkins.net> (Yoni Rabkin's message of "Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:36:25 +0200") Original-Lines: 28 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:87089 Archived-At: Yoni Rabkin writes: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > > > I created a new category in etc/TODO: "Simple Tasks". The idea is to > > put there issues that we know need fixing, and don't require too much > > expertise. > > How is this different from the "Small but important fixes needed in > existing features" category in the same file? To make my question > clearer, > > I'm wondering what the difference is between "small" and "simple" here > since in my opinion, if a change requires a lot of knowledge it should > probably not be called "small" even if it results in only a few lines of > code. The entries in the "Small fix" category, even though they are small (probably require a very small number of lines of code to change), most of them require a quite high understanding of the code+concepts involved. The explanation for "Simple Tasks" states that they "don't require much emacs knowledge". If you think anything here is unclear, please propose a better wording. I don't want this to degenerate in a long long thread on semantic differences.