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: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116379: Replace "Maintainer: FSF" with the emacs-devel mailing address Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:11:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1lfvnqvqmk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <874n467rz4.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392145879 10965 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2014 19:11:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:11:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 11 20:11:28 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 1WDIjv-00016j-PA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:11:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35533 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDIjv-0001Ky-83 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:11:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53321) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDIjo-0001Kk-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:11:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDIjm-0006VD-QK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:11:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50209) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDIjm-0006V8-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:11:18 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDIjm-00030w-6J; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:11:18 -0500 In-reply-to: <874n467rz4.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:17:03 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:169531 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] maintainer-wanted@gnu.org (redirecting to emacs-devel perhaps) would probably communicate most clearly. A blanket change of this sort would be mistaken. There are some files for which we might wish to find a specific maintainer. But not all of them! For most of them, all we want to say is "no specific maintainer". While "FSF" is not perfectly clear, it gets the point across. "Emacs developers" would be slightly more correct, but the change would be a lot more trouble than it is worth. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.