From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: More metaproblem Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 13:04:13 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141205180413.GE3120@thyrsus.com> References: <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> <85ppbymn91.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87mw7257b8.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417802714 31019 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 18:05:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:05:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Leake , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 19:05:08 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 1XwxFc-0006YA-34 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 19:05:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwxFb-0007gm-Ex for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:05:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48097) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwxFJ-0007ga-Du for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:04:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwxFE-0004Yi-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:04:49 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:56709 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwxFE-0004Yc-FF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:04:44 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 00180382BBD; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 13:04:13 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87mw7257b8.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 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:178969 Archived-At: Karl Fogel : > So for information that people typically expect to be on the Web, such > as developer guidelines for contributing to a free software project, > we'll be better off putting that on the Web. Because the people who > need to read it the most, the people who are the most important to us -- > proficient Emacs users who are *considering* becoming contributors but > who have not decided yet -- will expect to find it on the Web anyway, > and will most likely first read it in an environment other than Emacs. Precisely. See also my remarks about much Emacs documentation being an information ghetto. -- Eric S. Raymond