Discuss new features/enhancements or large changes for users in emacs-devel [was My resignation from Emacs development]

[Drew Adams]

> I think the crucial question was _where_ this discussion took
> place.  It was in the bug reporting list, not emacs-devel.
> 
> I have complained before that the practice of discussing a feature
> change on the bug list caused feature change ideas not to be
> recognized as such.  People should help notify all of us
> that we are discussing a feature change.

FWIW -

This is exactly the point I would have made,
if I had posted to this thread. ;-)

It doesn't _really_ matter (IMHO) who's
doing it - even if a discusser is a decider
(maintainer).  What matters is to get the
discussion viewed (and maybe participated
in) by a _wider audience_.
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In bug thread 73853 I wrote this about it:

  I don't understand why language-design discussions,
  even major ones sometimes, are carried out in
  debbugs and not always in emacs-devel@gnu.org.

  I can understand that some real BUG discussion can
  diverge or expand to a design discussion, but even
  then I'd think that that design discussion should
  be gently moved to emacs-devel.

  Some such discussions could even benefit from a
  mention in other places, such as help-gnu-emacs,
  so more users could tune in to the discussion in
  emacs-devel if they're interested.