From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [OT] Netiquette (was: Re: asm-mode patch to allow per-file comment character setting from file locals) Date: 13 Jun 2006 18:21:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2E2BAEFF-FEAD-4616-87CD-3B77D2734256@alastairs-place.net> <19321565-3F93-4299-996F-8A2081C462AF@alastairs-place.net> <85bqsyfrhb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <853beaf0c4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <6C1D0482-9501-47E5-A79E-C40EF7B349A8@alastairs-place.net> <7BBA4171-6111-42FF-9293-0EF2D8E2E436@alastairs-place.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150237330 22200 80.91.229.2 (13 Jun 2006 22:22:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:22:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 14 00:22:06 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 1FqHGt-0004AX-59 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:22:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqHGs-0006jc-Jn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:22:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqHGf-0006i4-Ew for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:21:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqHGd-0006es-7P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:21:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqHGc-0006ej-WA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:21:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [67.59.132.6] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FqHPf-0007ny-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:31:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.50) id 1FqHGc-0000sO-2M; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:21:46 -0400 Original-To: Alastair Houghton In-Reply-To: <7BBA4171-6111-42FF-9293-0EF2D8E2E436@alastairs-place.net> Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 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:55871 Archived-At: Alastair Houghton writes: > I do have a sneaking suspicion that [...] > If you can find an instance where I haven't been polite, > then I will happily apologise for it. there is no real need for politeness, nor apologies. likewise, there is no real need for sneaking suspicion. all of these can be misrepresented, misinterpreted and mishandled. so by all means, make the program precise, but don't forget to leave slack for the programmers (at least, until you get to know them personally :-). for example, you may think i "represent" FSF saying these things, but i don't mind considering that over time your conception of the association between a thing and its name(s) will mature. in this way, i cut you slack, personally (FWIW, YMMV, HAND, IMHO :-). the real need is for programmers who contribute to emacs to get the paperwork done, if the emacs maintainer (RMS) thinks the contribution is good, preferably in a manner that reduces administrative work in the future. to make evaluating the patch easier, please repost the latest version using "diff -c". thi