From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: admin/MAINTAINER edits Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:09:21 +0300 Message-ID: <8337xua7v2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8h9mbbrt9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lhbn9d47.fsf@gnu.org> <560D4788.7020208@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443722163 26566 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2015 17:56:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 17:56:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 19:55:54 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 1Zhi58-0004r0-Ln for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:55:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54520 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhi58-0007up-2D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60631) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhgQL-0000IM-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:09:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhgQH-0008BT-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:09:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:41332) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhgQG-0008AY-W4; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:09:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVJ00300TVZKW00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:09:31 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVJ003I0U7U7C90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:09:31 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <560D4788.7020208@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:190569 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > 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?