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: When will emacs 27.1 be officially released? Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:29:39 +0300 Message-ID: <83zh8jxq98.fsf@gnu.org> References: <28BB39D5-074F-4450-A747-C2BFB37AA482@gnu.org> <87pn9g6fuo.fsf@gmail.com> <83bll0ze1x.fsf@gnu.org> <03c328d0-b446-9806-5b7b-1cda10a50eb7@cs.ucla.edu> <835zb8z84k.fsf@gnu.org> <93bffae8-e8e5-2eea-7087-5a894cbfea0c@cs.ucla.edu> <4d2cff85-3a3d-c26e-504a-027734bfe36c@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23131"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, liwei.ma@gmail.com, kevin.legouguec@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 01 16:31:14 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 1jqdla-0005vC-HQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:31:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44702 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqdlZ-0008E0-HI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:31:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39932) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqdkG-0006mr-5t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:29:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39941) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqdkE-0002rQ-5x; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:29:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1771 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jqdk9-0000sd-2U; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:29:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4d2cff85-3a3d-c26e-504a-027734bfe36c@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Wed, 1 Jul 2020 01:31:13 +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:252608 Archived-At: > Cc: liwei.ma@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, kevin.legouguec@gmail.com > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 01:31:13 +0300 > > I've had multiple discussions with Eli on how things should be described > and structured, after which my contributions ended us essentially fully > rewritten. I'm not bitter about those occurrences, but it seems to me > that adding to the manual wouldn't be very productive for me in many > cases (unless it's a minor fix of an existing entry) if someone is going > to rewrite all of it. Rephrasing existing documentation is much easier than writing it from scratch, especially for a feature someone else developed. So please don't take those rewordings as a sign that your original documentation effort is wasted, it definitely isn't.