From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Merging Finder into package mechanism Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 15:03:43 -0700 Message-ID: <57812C1F8FEB4528A65846F19F669142@us.oracle.com> References: <87hbie8ppy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <41A82A0C268E42CA838BB6AF4C778B20@us.oracle.com> <87eib72orn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <1DFC8CFFD80647C086EAC377F7AAA837@us.oracle.com> <87wroxgh1b.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83oca86fbo.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288649075 5053 80.91.229.12 (1 Nov 2010 22:04:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 22:04:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 01 23:04:30 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PD2UC-0007Fx-3Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:04:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40109 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PD2U0-000825-Q3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:04:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53522 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PD2Tt-00081i-Ew for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:03:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PD2Ts-00030J-55 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:03:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:37565) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PD2Tr-00030B-Uz; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:03:56 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id oA1M3rf5009062 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 1 Nov 2010 22:03:55 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id oA1Kk22K031112; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 22:03:53 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt009.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 740457901288649019; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:03:39 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:03:39 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Act59uRW5Rma6p7AT6in89T4yt7bkAAF7oag In-Reply-To: <83oca86fbo.fsf@gnu.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:132258 Archived-At: > docs are not always in sync with the code, until Emacs is released. > We never strayed from what was in place when Richard was the head > maintainer. You'd see incomplete documentation then as well, because > few people would write docs together with code. Of course doc or NEWS can be incomplete during development. No one claimed otherwise. I feel that it was a higher priority for Richard. You can disagree. Placeholders are not how NEWS is _supposed_ to work. Incomplete or inaccurate NEWS or doc should not be the _aim_, even if some incompleteness or incorrectness is inevitable. A placeholder is appropriate if it cannot be avoided.