From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some candidates for obsoletion Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 11:34:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401464133 1554 80.91.229.3 (30 May 2014 15:35:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 15:35:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 30 17:35:25 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 1WqOq4-0002UU-BV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2014 17:35:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54924 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WqOq3-0001G2-Vf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2014 11:35:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43457) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WqOpu-0000wN-1Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2014 11:35:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WqOpm-0004as-Rp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2014 11:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:53059) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WqOpm-0004aL-OK; Fri, 30 May 2014 11:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFA32C0AD; Fri, 30 May 2014 11:35:06 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE481E5874; Fri, 30 May 2014 11:34:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id AE73DB40F6; Fri, 30 May 2014 11:34:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 30 May 2014 07:24:32 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 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:172195 Archived-At: > True, but if this is meant to trigger feedback from users, it should > ask them for feedback. How about setting them up so that if someone > invokes them they display a message "Please write to > emacs-devel@gnu.org if you don't want this to get deleted some day."? That applies to pretty much everything we move to `obsolete' or we declare as `obsolete'. And yes, we could/should improve our "obsolescence infrastructure". Stefan