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X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4864:20::32e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242552 Archived-At: On 21.11.2019 5:06, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > Both true. But I think authentication is an unavoidable burden anyway, > > at least if we aim to target a larger audience. > > Why do we _want_ to "target a larger audience" for bug tracking > in particular. The larger audience I meant here are the existing users of Emacs. A lot of which avoid reporting bugs to Debbugs. And I know that because I maintain some third-party packages with different issue trackers. > Sure, all else being equal we would prefer to offer more > convenient interfaces. But is that such an imperative > that we would want to pay a price for it? I am skeptical. Is hearing from all our users an imperative? I don't know. But we'd certainly something we'd like to have.