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Re: Maintainer overview
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Maintainer overview |
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Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:57:25 -0400 |
> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:35:46 +0200
>
> > What about source files that are not packages, like code written in C,
> > or issues that are not confined to a single file/package?
>
> Perhaps "area" is a better concept than "package". I mean, Ted and
> Juanma would probably appreciate being notified on gnutls issues, and
> you would like (or "like" :-)) to get bidi notifications.
>
> However, areas that are mostly covered by people who are participating
> actively on emacs-devel already don't really need to get these
> notifications, since we all read emacs-bugs already, don't we? :-)
>
> So, while nice, it's probably more useful for packages maintained by
> people who don't read these lists regularly.
Maybe we should take a step back and talk about the goals of this
feature. Is this just to be nice to those who don't read
bug-gnu-emacs and send them a notification? Or do we want to make
sure every bug is assigned to some "victim"? These are different
goals, and the solutions are likely to be different.
Re: Maintainer overview, Jambunathan K, 2011/07/28
Re: Maintainer overview, Tim Cross, 2011/07/28