Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes:

> This tells me that this development community (or at least certain
> people in it) don't want my contribution for inexplicable reasons, in
> particular not technical reasons.  I do not see any possible sensible
> definition of "the needs of the Emacs Project" that would lead to the
> behavior I've seen from certain people here, so I disagree absolutely
> that it could possibly be a misunderstanding on my side.
>
>
> Moreover, I've been warned about emacs-devel by multiple people before,
> and about a certain member of it in particular, and I did not believe it
> could possibly be this bad.

You don't need to speak in riddles.  I am quite used to seeing my name
explicitly written in such contexts.

However, if you take the time and sort the replies according to their
authors and look at what each individual actually has been writing
rather than your current recollection, you'll find that your impression
of an ongoing attack is simply untenable.  Even if you focus on my
contributions to that thread (and I'm not really much of a regular or
typical here even though I have tried providing missing perspectives to
several recent discussions recently with, I hope, mostly constructive
results).

The impression of a concerted attack that you fancy comes more about by
several people sharing the same opinion and experience than by an
insider/outsider setting and your recollection gets carried away with
what you want to remember about the discussion.

Really, reread the stuff and in particular find the parts that you
remember as being particularly egregious.  You'll find that your
recollection is playing games with you more than the people on this list
are.

> Lest you think this is an isolated case.  Maybe the previous victims
> were less outspoken so the majority of the community still doesn't see
> that there's a serious problem.

If everybody tells you the same, chances are that "everybody is wrong
then" is not the whole truth.

-- 
David Kastrup