Re: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [

[Óscar Fuentes]

David Engster <address@hidden> writes:

>> Yup; I think we have to have this if Gitlab is to be a usable solution
>> for Emacs.
>
> I'm playing around with SourceHut a bit lately
> (https://sourcehut.org),

The author of SourceHut participates on a forum that I read often. I'm
pretty sure that he would welcome a list of requirements from Emacs'
maintainers.

>> This reminds me of something that I've been meaning to ask -- how come
>> there's absolutely no spam on debbugs?  Presumably all the 40K debbugs
>> addresses are in all the spammers' address books, so the server should
>> be flooded by spam, but nothing makes it through.  What's the spam
>> handling system employed by GNU?
>
> I dimly remember spam in debbugs being pretty bad ~10 years ago or
> so. Something has happened then, but I also don't know what...

Possibly the same as with emacs-devel, -help, etc: a sophisticated
carbon-based spam filtering system.