From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Maintainer overview Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:57:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83oc0fdsgg.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311839858 27239 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2011 07:57:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:57:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 09:57:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmLTK-0001KV-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:57:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmLTJ-0001wM-IF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:57:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52255) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmLTG-0001v0-4y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmLTC-0007Xm-0r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:32985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmLTB-0007Xi-Vd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:57:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmLTB-0001Qq-52; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:57:25 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:35:46 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:142431 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:35:46 +0200 > > > What about source files that are not packages, like code written in C, > > or issues that are not confined to a single file/package? > > Perhaps "area" is a better concept than "package". I mean, Ted and > Juanma would probably appreciate being notified on gnutls issues, and > you would like (or "like" :-)) to get bidi notifications. > > However, areas that are mostly covered by people who are participating > actively on emacs-devel already don't really need to get these > notifications, since we all read emacs-bugs already, don't we? :-) > > So, while nice, it's probably more useful for packages maintained by > people who don't read these lists regularly. Maybe we should take a step back and talk about the goals of this feature. Is this just to be nice to those who don't read bug-gnu-emacs and send them a notification? Or do we want to make sure every bug is assigned to some "victim"? These are different goals, and the solutions are likely to be different.