From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 05:33:05 +0300 Message-ID: <83r2xqjq5a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8737aac0rb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <7s37aapc4g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fue7c32j.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83r2xrl8kp.fsf@gnu.org> <83d19bkz60.fsf@gnu.org> <87shi68y6m.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499567647 32260 195.159.176.226 (9 Jul 2017 02:34:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 02:34:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, rgm@gnu.org, ken.manheimer@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 09 04:34:02 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dU22q-00083L-MF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2017 04:34:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34672 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dU22w-0001zm-5D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 22:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33795) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dU22J-0001zf-Hy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 22:33:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dU22F-0002pc-4v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 22:33:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48019) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dU22F-0002pW-1M; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 22:33:23 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2892 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dU226-0000Bs-L0; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 22:33:15 -0400 In-reply-to: <87shi68y6m.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216351 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, rgm@gnu.org, ken.manheimer@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 21:34:57 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> No this is no good. If I am going to do this, I want notifications -- push > >> not pull. So, there needs to be a way to open this up beyond maintainers. > > > > Maybe there's a misunderstanding: I'm offering to do this in your > > stead. IOW, "if I'm going to do this" is no longer applicable: if you > > ask me, I will do it for you -- you will no longer need to bother > > about the process, you will just get a notification when it's done > > (and you can query me about the current status, if you wish). > > > > It's entirely up to you whether to take the offer, of course. > > Eli, this is a kind offer, but it misses the point, really. Having you > do the work doesn't make the work less It makes the work less for you. > And, having you as a single point of failure is not that scalable. It doesn't make me a single point of failure, because if I'm not available, the process can be restarted by someone else using the information available to the FSF personnel.