From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug Database? Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:20:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17717.20433.183356.106695@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17718.15996.727727.91417@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17719.20082.610297.834477@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17719.55331.655678.827341@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161369015 25216 80.91.229.2 (20 Oct 2006 18:30:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:30:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ich@frank-schmitt.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 20 20:30:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gaz88-0006uk-Ri for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:30:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gaz88-0004vc-CQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GapcR-0006bV-Cl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:20:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GapcQ-0006Zm-Aq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GapcQ-0006Ys-4v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GapcQ-0007t2-1N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GapcP-0004Lk-9U; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:20:41 -0400 Original-To: Nick Roberts In-reply-to: <17719.55331.655678.827341@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:55:15 +1300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60948 Archived-At: > If gdb had a leader who said "we don't ship broken code", gdb developers > would be at annoyed because their favorite new feature of which they are > proud and fond isn't released to the public and would eventually sit > down and fix it, just as it happens in Emacs. This is armchair advocacy. I suspect that the fix isn't as easy as you suggest, but if you feel that strongly about it, you could work on a fix. He did not say anything about the amount of work required. Whether it is easy or hard affects what the project leaders need to do, but either way they should exercise leadership to get it fixed.