From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What shall we do to verify the CVS diffs for emacs? Date: 15 Jan 2004 19:47:17 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200401142008.i0EK8OUI007731@sun1.aic.nrl.navy.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074215324 10499 80.91.224.253 (16 Jan 2004 01:08:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:08:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Hoey , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 16 02:08:40 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AhITY-0002DD-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:08:40 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AhITY-0005BJ-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:08:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AhI7x-00025C-P4 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:46:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AhDOh-0003lM-Mt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:43:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AhCws-0006EB-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:15:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AhCac-0001VO-5H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:51:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.226.12.161] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AhCZm-0002mr-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:50:42 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0FIlMDj012029 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:47:27 +0100 Original-Received: (from dak@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i0FIlIqh012025; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:47:18 +0100 Original-To: Thien-Thi Nguyen In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19189 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19189 Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > Dan Hoey writes: > > > > I'm not complaining (or volunteering), but I'd like to know if > > > there is any peace-of-mind increment on the horizon. > > I'm just trying to find out what the situation is--e.g., whether > there is some off-list work being done. Thank you for your > assessment of the situation. If anyone has further information, > I'd be most grateful to hear about it. > > why are you doing this? what emacs-enhancing activity will come > of this inquiry? Oh, come on. Stop everybody crying "sacrilege". Emacs is a large executable and an operating environment for many. The question is quite relevant, even though we might not like its current answer. There is nothing wrong in trying to assess the current situation by asking on the developers' list. Where else would you go for that? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum