Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list

[Paul W. Rankin]

On 2020-11-30 15:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Do you really think this will work?  I don't, FWIW.  How can a group
> of people not involved with development answer non-trivial questions,
> suggest reporting useful bugs and feature requests etc.?  Even
> help-gnu-emacs would not be the same without several developers
> dwelling there.  Posting to emacs-devel is a slippery path to making
> this new list a branch of the existing ones, something that this
> initiative wants explicitly to avoid.  I'm probably missing something
> here.

There's no cause to worry. The three things you list -- non-trivial 
questions, bugs, and feature requests -- are already covered by the 
other lists, where diligent Emacs developers remain on guard. There 
exists a discussion scope outside of that scope.