From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: whither GNU Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:17:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: <10697146.3630221218551689983.JavaMail.www@wwinf4615> <87d4k6qm9g.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87r68kr1v5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <48AE09B2.3080900@emf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219364301 625 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2008 00:18:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:18:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, hannes@saeurebad.de, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, acm@muc.de, "Stephen J. Turnbull" To: "Thomas Lord" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 22 02:19:13 2008 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 1KWKMy-0006YJ-8z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:19:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54546 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWKLz-0005nH-E3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:18:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWKLt-0005nC-Tp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWKLr-0005mz-Bu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:18:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48004 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWKLr-0005mw-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.187]:58300) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KWKLq-0005cP-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i2so161494mue.6 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:17:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=aBJ+35D5j5yrxr+Oxe6gE3LltJkAAPGTHBZfGzZ55+E=; b=gEqiRbGZvuOdVjiMFTf7N16zX6pmGXck/QyhpVcpKS+lNCi/f4JiPI1vp8a3XOYtKi jshOOvTvTiitM/7hZhakXoOMkWmxChDID0C4Ouw8xhlrswl/TJL4bGhsmDIbeJxRNWPy tARE4jCoeRjrzg/PO6ZMkjBL0uS7TimEwJIFU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=WGkSZs8+wdDMWBkBUs8GBAOkImee4qIXZU+tgVaLFS8XIb7O9uuaGaNhOhKRKfLY4m Jx3TMeHZAPjW80u2PPQSkpJTvGs+KHsO52rKdaeSDrK5tXlxOwn/plt51ALGiLXohxHV ahIX6wv5o1A2KNamnvmHYO5HoQjfCN9fmUahs= Original-Received: by 10.103.114.14 with SMTP id r14mr249139mum.120.1219364279010; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:17:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.23.12 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:17:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48AE09B2.3080900@emf.net> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:102800 Archived-At: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 02:34, Thomas Lord wrote: > The GNU projects, especially central ones like Emacs, do > double duty as "messages" and their role as messages takes > priority over technical quality. That was pretty evident in the way bzr did get "chosen" as future dVCS for Emacs. Juanma