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Future emacs mailing lists. [Was: On the popularity of git]
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Future emacs mailing lists. [Was: On the popularity of git] |
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Wed, 4 Nov 2015 11:12:04 +0000 |
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Hello, John.
Congratulations on your appointment as Emacs maintainer, and thanks for
taking it up.
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 03:15:17PM -0500, John Wiegley wrote:
[ .... ]
> In the future, I think it has come time to establish a Code of Conduct, along
> with a transition to a passively moderated list: one where all posts are
> allowed by default, but those who disregard the CoC will lose their right to
> post until the end of a waiting period.
> I appreciate that some do not see this as a problem or disagree with my
> assessment (Hi, Juanma, thanks for your support btw :). But needless to say, I
> know of several people (personally, in meat-space) who do not participate here
> because of these problems, and I'm willing to make some changes to bring these
> people back into the fold.
> For the purposes of Emacs development (aka, emacs-devel), I would much rather
> have a semi-professional atmosphere focused on improving Emacs, than an
> easy-going social atmosphere focused on eloquent debates. That belongs on
> another list -- and in fact, creation of just such a list is in process and
> will be announced by Richard or myself shortly.
For that other list, the more social one, to flourish, there will need
to be a convention of switching threads from emacs-devel to
emacs-social/emacs-off-topic/emacs-whatever. Most (?all) of the long
rambling threads that plague emacs-devel start from legitimate on-topic
discussion. It may become part of your role as project head to call for
a switch to the other (new) group, but hopefully most people will sense
the right time themselves.
As mechanism for the switching, the Mail-followup-to: header (or
whatever it's called) should do the trick, I think.
> For those who've actually read to the end of this message: Richard and I met
> at MIT yesterday, where I officially accepted the role as maintainer of Emacs.
> An announcement is forthcoming, once we dot the i's and cross the t's. It's
> also why I've switched my subscription address to address@hidden, and would
> appreciate if Emacs-related issues are sent there, rather than to my other
> accounts.
address@hidden it is, then.
> Toward a better future, and much happy hacking!
And to yourself too, sir!
> John Wiegley
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- RE: On the popularity of git, (continued)
- Changing the subject (was: On the popularity of git), David Kastrup, 2015/11/03
- Re: Changing the subject (was: On the popularity of git), Marcin Borkowski, 2015/11/03
- Re: Changing the subject (was: On the popularity of git), John Yates, 2015/11/03
- Re: Changing the subject, Yann Hodique, 2015/11/04
- Re: Changing the subject, John Wiegley, 2015/11/04
- emacs-devel etiquette (was: Re: On the popularity of git), Stephen Leake, 2015/11/03
- Future emacs mailing lists. [Was: On the popularity of git],
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: On the popularity of git, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/11/04
- Re: On the popularity of git, Richard Stallman, 2015/11/03
- Re: On the popularity of git, Andreas Schwab, 2015/11/03
Re: On the popularity of git, Nikolaus Rath, 2015/11/02