From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Will Farrington <wcfarrington@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>,
Daniel Clemente <dcl441-bugs@yahoo.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Summer of Code 2009
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:02:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hc3w3sm9.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <131D6B72-4CFC-4C83-A3F7-A4926518F383@gmail.com> (Will Farrington's message of "Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:41:12 -0500")
Will Farrington <wcfarrington@gmail.com> writes:
> Eliminating bugs from Emacs is *always* a good thing, even for
> proprietary platforms. I think discouraging people from trying to
> improve Emacs based upon the platform they use sends the wrong
> message.
That's not the point. Certainly, contributions are welcome for all
platforms. However, in the case of GSoC, we're trying to select a small
number of projects to be worked on. In this case, it makes sense to
steer people towards efforts that do not narrowly benefit non-free
platforms.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-19 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-14 8:19 Summer of Code 2009 Nick Roberts
2009-01-14 13:52 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-14 19:07 ` Nick Roberts
2009-01-22 6:56 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-01-22 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-15 10:10 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-01-16 0:25 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-16 7:10 ` Nick Roberts
2009-01-16 14:18 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-01-16 22:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-23 11:13 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-01-17 0:19 ` Will Farrington
2009-01-18 0:53 ` Nick Roberts
2009-01-18 20:12 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-18 20:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-18 21:35 ` Alex Ott
2009-01-19 2:41 ` Will Farrington
2009-01-19 3:02 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-01-19 7:30 ` Will Farrington
2009-01-20 0:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-19 7:38 ` Will Farrington
2009-01-19 6:45 ` Nick Roberts
2009-01-19 7:32 ` Will Farrington
2009-01-18 10:24 ` Alex Ott
2009-01-18 14:37 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-19 4:30 ` Richard M Stallman
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