From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: admin/MAINTAINER edits Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 07:47:36 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <560D4788.7020208@cs.ucla.edu> References: <8h9mbbrt9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lhbn9d47.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443719450 13865 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2015 17:10:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 17:10:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 19:10:39 2015 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 1ZhhNM-0002LR-Ct for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:10:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53687 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhhNK-0005Uh-Or for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39397) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhfQC-0004lo-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:05:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhfQC-0000G2-0l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:05:24 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:57585) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhf91-0002Et-Aa; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 10:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E987160EB7; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 07:47:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id tU97B-nRplK9; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 07:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA3D160EBB; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 07:47:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id UeKRh3UngA9S; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 07:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C5A55160EB7; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 07:47:36 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: <83lhbn9d47.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:190564 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > How else could I or you or someone > else know whom to ask to look into some specific problem that was > reported and not handled soon enough? When this happens in other projects, I look at the commit logs and see who has updated the file recently and why. This sounds more reliable (and easier to maintain) than a separate MAINTAINERS file. I agree that our bug-report response is bad, but admin/MAINTAINERS won't appreciably help with that.