Re: New Package for NonGNU-ELPA: clojure-ts-mode

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02/09/2023 14:45, Po Lu wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:
>
> > On 02/09/2023 12:00, Po Lu wrote:
> > > So IIUC, you're proposing that a significant amount of time and energy
> > > be expended on an endeavor meant to accommodate a very small fraction of
> > > people who are loath to subscribe to the list, reluctant to browse the
> > > list archives by hand, and desire the contents of a single thread to be
> > > delivered to them, without sending mail to each of its participants and
> > > thereby disclosing their e-mail addresses.
> >
> > I imagine that it might be a large number of people,
> > actually. Possibly larger than the number of active participants on
> > this list, maybe even by an order or a magnitude (Emacs has more
> > users).
> >
> > Who would at least like to read-browse-follow some of our discussions
> > without fully subscribing to the lists or interjecting into the
> > threads.
>
> And are loath to read the archives off lists.gnu.org or Gmane?  Again,
> where are the statistics?

How would you collect such statistics?

There is no way to subscribe to lists.gnu.org (but some obviously read 
from there). And don't get me started on Gmane.

> I'm inclined to believe that the number of such individuals is actually
> minuscule, since this problem was not mentioned by one of _them_, but by
> the two of you, both regulars on this list with a penchant for
> conjecturing on behalf of others.

We're talking about people hesitant to insert themselves into 
development conversations, so for proof you're asking for someone to do so?