From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 22:57:56 +0300 Message-ID: <83tuy7jkqj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bllfqj82.fsf@warpmail.net> <83mu4m0vub.fsf@gnu.org> <44f2f1f4-ae34-f0bf-b153-f33b8ee6069f@yandex.ru> <83mu4fvjh3.fsf@gnu.org> <7c2e93d4-8d86-bbbb-77a0-bf5d73051907@yandex.ru> <83imf2t4w4.fsf@gnu.org> <95fd893e-0da5-4cdc-a3e8-3c22af750aae@yandex.ru> <837dvfs6wg.fsf@gnu.org> <8bc1f381-248f-5cee-c3c6-a29d411a2f74@yandex.ru> <837dvbphs0.fsf@gnu.org> <83365zp78d.fsf@gnu.org> <831rlipmgg.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfjqnsa6.fsf@gnu.org> <294212ed-5a6e-0a7f-e1c2-97e917f1e6e1@yandex.ru> <83eepgomts.fsf@gnu.org> <83a704okmg.fsf@gnu.org> <5d59dd9b-0848-691a-615e-c16d2070b92d@yandex.ru> <837dv8oida.fsf@gnu.org> <834kqcoghk.fsf@gnu.org> <99bb8976-580a-ef8e-6b7d-130c3ca5cb8a@yandex.ru> <83y2nom3hy.fsf@gnu.org> <381b263f-251e-334e-228c-06cf09521845@yandex.ru> <838sfjl8pq.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15614"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 16 21:58:42 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jwA1h-0003vC-De for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:58:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36554 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jwA1g-0001xw-Dm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:58:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51696) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jwA1E-0001Y2-29 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:58:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54445) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jwA1D-0006Lo-Ej; Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:58:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3412 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jwA1C-0005Yo-AW; Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:58:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:55:48 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252985 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:55:48 +0300 > > As a maintainer of an umbrella project, you're supposed to respect the > contributors' efforts, and especially the maintainers of subsystems who > have more understanding about the design and purpose of said subsystems. I do. But sometimes I'm not convinced, the disagreement cannot be resolved, and there's no compromise anywhere in sight; in those rare cases I insist on my opinion. That is entirely my prerogative as the maintainer, there's nothing new here. > That's a lot of words to say "things must be exactly as I say for the > good of the project". The implication being that your experience is > always best, or that you were chosen as the maintainer for being an > expert on all aspects of Emacs (spoiler alert: that was not the reason). You are putting words in my mouth that I didn't say. Please don't.