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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: admin/MAINTAINER edits
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:09:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8337xua7v2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <560D4788.7020208@cs.ucla.edu>

> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 07:47:36 -0700
> 
> 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.

That could take a while, so is less convenient.

> I agree that our bug-report response is bad, but admin/MAINTAINERS won't 
> appreciably help with that.

It's a small step, and by itself will not help in any significant
way.  But let's not dismiss every idea too quickly, okay?



  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-01 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-30 20:00 admin/MAINTAINER edits Glenn Morris
2015-10-01  9:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 14:47   ` Paul Eggert
2015-10-01 16:09     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-10-01 17:33   ` Glenn Morris
2015-10-01 17:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 19:07     ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-01 14:43 ` Paul Eggert

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