Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>]

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Hi Nicolas,

it is very easy to be a critic and technology has just made it easy to
spread those criticisms with no real cost - just type and hit send. As far
as I can see, you and Eli thought about how to do this release, considered
the implications and did what you believed was most appropriate given
priorities and resources. I certainly acknowledge and appreciate your
efforts. Ignore the negative noise, most of it is lacking in facts, built
on assumptions and fails to recognise hindsight is always 20/20. Thee has
been no adverse consequences and I feel you and Eli have shown the action
was responsible and well reasoned. Points have been raised and
acknowledged, time to move on and recognise that most of the fine work done
to maintain Emacs is done by volunteers who need to make time to do these
contributions in a modern world where most of us have too much to do with
too little time to do it.

thanks for your efforts.

Tim


On 13 September 2017 at 04:38, Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr> wrote:

> Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The thing is guys in my daily-job I do this kind of "release and pray"
> > source code management on a daily basis.
> > You know - cobol, mainframes, finance industry, dinosaurs...
>
> I had to produce the tarball as quickly as I could, which meant
> yesterday evening after work.  We agreed with Eli not to bother with the
> website or the Git branch, as it was much less urgent than releasing the
> security fix.  However, I do have the changes on my local Git repo, so
> there's no need to worry (I'll push them right after sending this email).
>
> To be honest, I'm a bit frustrated with all the negative attitude
> regarding this release.
>
> Nico
>



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regards,

Tim

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Tim Cross

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