From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:20:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d3utt8ko.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrt1i1qt.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:43:38 +0900
> Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
> "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> I don't know what it feels like to mentor Lennart, personally. I do
> know what it feels like to try to get code into Emacs, *and I won't
> try it again*.
So you are talking about Lennart, but think about yourself. It would
have been fair to tell that up front. More importantly, there's a
world of difference between these two cases, even though the result
might be similar.
> But I bet there is also a fair amount of good code sitting around
> out there that people are unwilling to contribute because of the
> scutwork and bikeshedding entailed in getting anything into Emacs,
> and which experienced developers could whip into shape quite quickly
> if they just took the code and said "it will be our pleasure".
I don't think there's ``a fair amount of code'' in this status.
However, I hope you will understand that making the necessary changes
for a contributor who is unwilling to make them by herself is not a
good policy in the long run, because (1) it's hardly a good use of the
limited time resources I have, and (2) we will need to do this
forever, as the contributor doesn't want to adapt their practices to
some minimal requirements of QA and code cleanness. He even refuses
to reformat his code as to facilitate the review!
> I can understand Richard or Miles or other non-Windows-user
> brushing it off; I don't understand you or Eli being willing to let
> this one go without at least trying to beat it into shape yourself,
What's not to understand? I have no time for arguing with Lennart,
and I have better use (developing bidi) for the few hours a week I
have to work on Emacs. I'm willing to invest some portion of that
time in teaching someone who genuinely wants to learn. I'm
_un_willing to _waste_ it on endless arguments with someone who thinks
they know better.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-12 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-08 5:31 Efforts to attract more users? Ken Hori
2010-07-08 7:44 ` joakim
2010-07-08 13:28 ` Adrian Robert
2010-07-08 14:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-08 14:53 ` Stuart Hacking
2010-07-09 21:46 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-09 22:52 ` Christoph
2010-07-09 23:53 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-10 14:51 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-10 14:55 ` Christoph
2010-07-08 15:09 ` Teemu Likonen
2010-07-08 13:54 ` Stuart Hacking
2010-07-09 3:05 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-09 3:24 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-07-09 15:01 ` Stephen Eilert
2010-07-09 20:25 ` Rolando Pereira
2010-07-09 7:26 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-07-09 11:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-09 7:31 ` christian.lynbech
2010-07-09 11:04 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-09 11:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-09 11:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-09 12:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-09 13:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-09 16:09 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-09 16:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-09 17:05 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-09 17:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-09 17:24 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-09 17:29 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10 0:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-10 19:15 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 2:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-10 0:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-10 0:11 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-10 0:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-10 0:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-10 23:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-11 2:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-11 2:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-11 3:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-12 0:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-12 1:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-12 7:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-12 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-07-12 12:37 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-12 13:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-12 8:21 ` David Kastrup
2010-07-12 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-12 8:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-12 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-12 8:38 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-12 8:53 ` David Kastrup
2010-07-09 7:33 ` Emacs learning curve (was Re: Efforts to attract more users?) christian.lynbech
2010-07-09 7:43 ` Emacs learning curve Masatake YAMATO
2010-07-09 11:01 ` Efforts to attract more users? Lennart Borgman
2010-07-11 4:37 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-11 10:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-11 13:24 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-11 13:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-11 13:59 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-11 14:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-11 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 15:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-07-11 15:31 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-07-11 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 21:25 ` John Yates
2010-07-12 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-12 12:36 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-12 12:47 ` Stephen Eilert
2010-07-12 16:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-12 17:25 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-07-12 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-13 1:33 ` Why not Qt4? (hi, Drew! was: Efforts to attract more users?) Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-13 2:37 ` Efforts to attract more users? Miles Bader
2010-07-13 13:51 ` Richard Stallman
2010-07-13 13:56 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-13 15:07 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-07-13 15:52 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-13 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-13 15:24 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-07-12 0:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-11 14:52 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-07-11 15:49 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-12 0:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-12 9:42 ` joakim
2010-07-09 12:05 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2010-07-09 12:23 ` Alex Ott
2010-07-09 14:33 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-07-12 1:57 ` CEDET speed issues [was Re: Efforts to attract more users?] Eric M. Ludlam
2010-07-09 15:39 ` Efforts to attract more users? Leo
2010-07-10 19:05 ` Tom Tromey
2010-07-08 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-08 23:28 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-08 23:56 ` Fren Zeee
2010-07-09 0:22 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-08-02 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-02 13:32 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-08-02 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-02 20:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-08-02 20:39 ` Jay Belanger
2010-08-03 6:40 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-03 8:11 ` Stuart Hacking
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