Re: My resignation from Emacs development

[Suhail Singh]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> We are all trying to work together here, so I don't think we need
> "recourse" other than to remind people gently that "We should discuss
> this on emacs-devel."  Any of us can start that discussion.  So if you
> see that a change is being considered that calls for discussion on
> emacs-devel, just forward one of the messages about it to emacs-devel.

I see.  The change you're proposing, if I understand correctly, is to
make the above (that anyone can start a discussion on emacs-devel, and
that we should all aspire to do so for "feature changes") common
knowledge (in addition to defining particulars regd. duration of
discussion etc).

I was under the impression that this was already common knowledge, but
perhaps not.  Regardless, while it's not clear whether such a guideline
would have helped in the triggering event that started the present
discussion, I do think there's some value in noting explicitly that
everyone has the shared responsibilities to discuss features (for some
definition of feature) on emacs-devel before pushing them.  And that if
one such omission comes to light it is the observer's responsibility to
treat the omission as having been accidental (as opposed to from
ill-intent) and to gently start the discussion on emacs-devel.

-- 
Suhail