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: Metaproblem, part 3 Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:59:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83tx1a2ld9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141203142859.24393.98673@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20141203193110.GF12748@thyrsus.com> <20141203215426.GA15791@thyrsus.com> <87ppbzplcw.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <83iohr48kr.fsf@gnu.org> <83388u4bps.fsf@gnu.org> <87egsejkrt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417791595 30460 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 14:59:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 14:59:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 15:59:48 2014 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 1XwuME-00023v-HF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:59:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50796 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwuME-0004NX-7v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:59:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55893) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwuLp-0004Ek-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:59:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwuLj-00034b-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:59:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:52223) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwuLj-00034K-1Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:59:15 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NG400I006I07W00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:54:57 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NG400EGG6RL2540@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:54:57 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87egsejkrt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 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:178936 Archived-At: > From: Eric Abrahamsen > Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 21:20:22 +0800 > > It would be nice to explicitly let posters know that they can ask > someone for help with implementing a feature/squashing a bug. There's > lots of helpful advice here and on emacs.help, but that's not quite the > same as knowing that someone has committed (to some extent) to assisting > you. I don't know how to do that. The offer of help is implicit on this list, and if someone needs to see it explicitly, then here it is. > The above is totally contingent on someone having the time and patience > to take on "students", and I think silence in response to a request for > mentoring should be quite normal. > > I'd lean towards on-list discussions, with the assumption that most > people will ignore them. I think we already have quite a lot of that going on, but if some labels on the subject line could help, let's do it.