From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk still not open Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:00:22 +0900 Message-ID: <87y508jbbd.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <6xwqfxhl88.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83txb1mcsy.fsf@gnu.org> <87siqlku0i.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87wqfxari2.fsf@yandex.ru> <87ha70kyy3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <5323B66B.5070405@yandex.ru> <837g7vdg70.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnx5l9is.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395122571 25646 80.91.229.3 (18 Mar 2014 06:02:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 06:02:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Emacs developers , Dmitry Gutov To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 18 07:03:00 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 1WPn72-00088S-QR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:02:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33475 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPn72-0006fl-3O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:02:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55845) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPn6u-0006ei-DT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:02:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPn6o-0000uW-JM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:02:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:57975) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPn6i-0000Xv-7Y; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:02:36 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BDE897099D; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:00:23 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0F5E51A28DC; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:00:23 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:170465 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > > It very rare that a person who can code is incapable > > of writing docs to an acceptable level of quality. It is of course > > common that they have had little practice at it. > I'm not bragging; I'm pointing out that I can put words together well > enough to be professionally published. And yet, I *suck* at it, I'm > extremely slow and inefficient doing that work, because of the simple > fact that I *HATE* writing. Except when posting to mailing lists? > I consider my teeth being pulled out without painkillers an > acceptable, even alluring, procrastinating alternative to > writing. Practice has nothing to do with it. I have practice. So you're one of the very rare ones. *shrug* My advice to you is to start looking for somebody who's willing to share the burden of writing docs with you, because the trend among serious volunteer projects is to require docs.