Re: Contributors and maintainers

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)
>> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:03:33 +0200
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> I have to disagree, and offer an alternative analysis by someone who's
>> not me and is quite a bit better at social issues than me.
>> 
>>     The usual approach on emacs-devel when dealing with something they
>>     don't like is to come up with random arguments, ignore
>>     counter-arguments, and move goalposts around because getting
>>     convinced by arguments is not something you do on the internet.
>> 
>>     From the glimpse I took, that's roughly what's happening there:
>>     They don't like the idea because gut feeling, so they nitpick
>>     irrelevancies and go off on tangents to support their gut feeling.
>
> I don't think things happen like that around here.

Well, I thought that the problem perceived here would have rather been
that the goalposts wouldn't budge than that they'd be moving around...

-- 
David Kastrup