From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On the popularity of git Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:40:29 -0600 Message-ID: <877flyg9ci.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20151028235340.GE2538@acm.fritz.box> <87h9l995ec.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20151029170237.GF2510@acm.fritz.box> <22068.12941.199944.979963@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20151031165007.GA20747@acm.fritz.box> <20151031214827.GB1853@acm.fritz.box> <871tca2j7f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k2pz7ejv.fsf@gmail.com> <56388756.1020502@yandex.ru> <87d1vr42r3.fsf@gmail.com> <87bnbbcfqq.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446579811 16467 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2015 19:43:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 19:43:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 03 20:43:26 2015 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 1ZthUM-0000py-6k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 20:43:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50618 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZthUL-0007oF-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:43:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47568) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZthUH-0007o8-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:43:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZthUC-0001uw-SL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:43:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ig0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22d]:33297) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZthUC-0001uV-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:43:16 -0500 Original-Received: by igvi2 with SMTP id i2so75639807igv.0 for ; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:43:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:references:reply-to:cc:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=+l0suC0jBsq/e6qm1A8Ew2Qskptqx9UZjCpsoppqmSw=; b=j6Cc8/+TunHyXjYz0ze06PS41CWZVKi52oK02uFAR2XKpZFzy3oj/b8+UstyOvuTd3 4i7nMrqdzIAJfDVmH1HX0mue+TJR/kq0Ae8ij7zyhgIjBXHPlyQKZTZ6rebBS8lHLQam 7FeUckHgDGutLlajle2++xIIfmccBsES7iQG353mCke7zimI0AvIGzzGs3ykT5AVGgNK rlze57U4E2aujdPRc/PZnmYXa5HOchPVlbikDrYU39YoT0JoZ1gIT9rfsUaiyIyETmI5 EGg8PfY3dUQCGG7PGyCkO9ZW5mzFM8VRZOfaVuo9ZsSsZrQGGdYq+Khjgwb8/YNtXfp9 lKVg== X-Received: by 10.50.171.194 with SMTP id aw2mr19088726igc.83.1446579796199; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:43:16 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from vh213601 (vh213601.truman.edu. [150.243.162.59]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e38sm9808230ioi.14.2015.11.03.11.43.15 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:43:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87bnbbcfqq.fsf@wanadoo.es> (=?utf-8?Q?=22=C3=93scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Tue, 03 Nov 2015 15:35:57 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22d 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:193166 Archived-At: > Glenn Morris is one of the most valuable Emacs hackers (contributing > solid work for very long periods of time.) He left the ml months ago > because this problem with long, wandering threads. IIRC his reasoning > was that the content of emacs-devel is too noisy and reading it achieves > no productive work. Not wanting to read all of emacs-devel would be a strange reason to leave the list; it isn't a read-it-all or read-none-of-it type deal. I can think of a lot of reasons why someone might write less on emacs-devel. Where did he give his reasons?