Re: Reordering etc/NEWS

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
>> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 12:50:25 -0400
>> 
>> When people badger me, I do not give them what they want.
>
> When my enemies badger me, I do not give them what they want, and
> the more they badger me, the more steadfastly I resist.

Which means that you can be manipulated by them.  Indifference might
be a more prudent goal.

> But we are not your enemies, and this is not a conspiracy to badger
> you.  It just happened that quite a few of us disagree with your
> ideas of what should and what shouldn't go in so close to the
> release.

Another problem is that there are no guidelines to follow.  At the
moment, Richard is pretty much the only person who has an idea about
where a particular patch should end up, if at all.  Given the number
of Emacs developers, this situation would already constitute a
bottleneck even if he did not have so many other things to do than
work on Emacs.

> Please, let us get back to proportions and treat a disagreement as
> just that.

It is not like it would be the first time.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum