From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Move etc/future-bug into etc/JOKES ?? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:57:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172692755 2661 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2007 19:59:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:59:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 28 20:59:04 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HMUx5-0006oG-UL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:59:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMUx6-0006I0-Sz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:59:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMUwu-0006Ew-Q7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:58:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMUwt-0006DT-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:58:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMUwt-0006D4-KY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:58:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HMUwt-0004ZS-9r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:58:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HMUvJ-0002Nc-QX; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:57:13 -0500 X-Spook: SEAL Team 6 ANZUS Forte Ceridian nitrate Kennedy advisors X-Ran: EW9<7^:LFSN6~ZpEO^Gv6S)boB>$/*H7M_qQ/W&eP4`,tnd7|'Nv]siXb(%4I9*AFu~Q<@ X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:18:59 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:67053 Archived-At: Kim F. Storm wrote: > and looked at etc/future-bug -- very funny, but I never noticed it > before (as etc is quite populated/polluted). > > I suggest moving it into etc/JOKES, as I would assume more users > would see it there. I think future-bug is made funnier because it doesn't hit you over the head and say "this is a joke", but rather reads like a normal bug report. Putting it in a file labelled JOKES would spoil it a bit by making you expect a joke from the start. I wouldn't be entirely surprised if a future version of Emacs _did_ have time-travel capability, so maybe this is a real bug report that just went a little astray... I agree that /etc in general looks like a mess, or (charitably) an old attic where you may stumble across interesting things. I think tree-widget/ should be in images/, and some other subdirectories (eg tutorials/, refcards/, ...?) would help tidy it up. But I don't see any need to do any of that at this stage.