From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Move etc/future-bug into etc/JOKES ?? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:14:58 +0100 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 1172672086 4170 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2007 14:14:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:14:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 28 15:14:33 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 1HMPZg-0004Ej-Aq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:14:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMPZg-0003dQ-PD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:14:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMPZT-0003a8-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:14:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMPZQ-0003UD-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:14:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMPZQ-0003U6-29 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:14:16 -0500 Original-Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HMPZP-0002Kj-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:14:15 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (unknown [80.165.4.124]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 71A69A50085; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:14:13 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Wed\, 28 Feb 2007 13\:18\:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) 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:67036 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On 2/28/07, Kim F. Storm wrote: > >> They are both jokes/humor related to Emacs > > The point is, the content of JOKES is understandable and potentially > funny for anyone (at least, anyone geek enough). A great deal of > DEVEL.HUMOR is not very funny Actually, I find the stuff in DEVEL.HUMOR is a good deal more funny than what's in JOKES. And some of it has _very funny_ on its own. > unless you happen to closely follow > emacs-devel; take Handa-san's wonderful rendition of "Imagine" against > unibyte, for example, or Stefan's joke about the "u"s in colour, > behaviour, etc. (which he deadpaned just when I was homogenizing > spelling all across the sources). Why do you say those are "not very funny" unless you closely follow emacs-devel? I think they are fun on their own. > Now that I think of it, I'm a bit surprised I didn't put the file > under admin/ :) Showing to people that it can be fun to follow emacs-devel is a good thing. "admin" doesn't sound like a fun place to look :-) Do we include it in the tarball? -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk