Re: emacs21-branch (Re: ognus)

[Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "DD" == Denys Duchier <Denys.Duchier@ps.uni-sb.de> writes:

 DD> Why does the general public have no information and no access to
 DD> the current developments?  Why should I have to be an
 DD> `accredited' contributor in order to have access to this
 DD> information?

I'm not aware of an accreditation scheme.

Why should maintainers expend the effort to do that if it's better
devoted to improving the software?  If you are volunteering to provide
that effort, and can you show competence to do it, great, contact the
maintainer and perhaps you can change things.  (If you're competent,
you know what's involved and may think twice.)

I don't think the general public has any particular right to demand
that I, say, do this.  GNU is about cooperation and volunteers make
things happen.

 DD> When I read the user manual for a piece of software, I usually
 DD> look for urls that would let me know where it is currently
 DD> maintained and developed.  I think the Gnus user manual should of
 DD> course contain this information.

Yes.  If it doesn't you might contribute a fix.  It _is_ listed in the
released Emacs along with a bunch of other URLs which I've failed to
keep secret.  URLs are also scattered in Lisp library files'
commentary and a number have been added to defgroups, particularly in
the development sources.  They are often already out-of-date in the
released version, of course.