From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:02:57 +0100 Message-ID: <87sgmh4etq.fsf@gnus.org> References: <20191117113054.49837.qmail@mail.muc.de> <87pnhq7mxg.fsf@gnus.org> <87bltaz9g4.fsf@telefonica.net> <834kz25qp9.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2wexsv1.fsf@telefonica.net> <20191118175639.08d02820@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <874kz0pa9y.fsf@gnus.org> <87sgmjyn60.fsf@gmx.de> <875zjelte0.fsf@gnus.org> <871ru2zubp.fsf@gmx.de> <87lfsakdxp.fsf@gnus.org> <87wobuydwz.fsf@gmx.de> <83v9rezf6d.fsf@gnu.org> <83h82yz6mu.fsf@gnu.org> <6938d5d2-0207-7d52-e60f-bbe5e591fd10@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="179486"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, rms@gnu.org, perry@piermont.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, Eli Zaretskii , Yuri Khan To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 21 13:05:59 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iXlDj-000kYC-4O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:05:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39450 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXlDh-0000k6-Sh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:05:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36060) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXlAv-0006lv-AN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:03:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXlAu-0006HT-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:03:05 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2]:45736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXlAu-0006Gu-0b; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iXlAo-00047r-C1; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:03:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <6938d5d2-0207-7d52-e60f-bbe5e591fd10@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:46:26 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242556 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov writes: > The latter, yes. But I'm more hopeful about this solution. What are we > worried about? > > That when we write to old bugs again, the submitter won't receive the > comments? Yes. As someone who goes spelunking into bug reports, it would be a major problem if questions I have about the reported bugs do not reach the person who reported the bug. And requesting somebody to register as a user on Gitlab seven years after reporting an Emacs bug "just in case" somebody might actually take a look at their bug report sounds horribly rude to me. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no