From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33022 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Laura Conrad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: emacs21-branch (Re: ognus) Date: 30 Oct 2000 18:38:08 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <2nwvetu80i.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> <20001028192205.7987BDBA78@tux.gnu.franken.de> <20001029184843.3207BDBAC8@tux.gnu.franken.de> <200010302253.WAA08203@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169206 22999 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:00:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:00:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493E6D049A for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:40:00 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB10493; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:39:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:38:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA12778 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:38:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from serpent.local (serpent.laymusic.org [216.254.78.118]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE1DD049A for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:39:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by serpent.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id B9A8D31016; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:38:08 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Denys Duchier X-Face: #0j-Ll[fajrfupWYMv&wa\m7!Sh=&3;JE-_&M-L,ULz(aE8iu%m1SHa5wG.V{3B:Fdnd/T# O -}0pPGYw%t1z`o&T_c=)p8l[}7R\={[@B*Jyj*.L4 hnJ*AXb In-Reply-To: Denys Duchier's message of "31 Oct 2000 00:20:46 +0100" Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33022 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33022 >>>>> "Denys" == Denys Duchier writes: Denys> Dave Love writes: >> >>>>> "KG" == Kai Großjohann writes: >> KG> Maybe we should put a chapter on the CVS organization into the manual. >> >> That has no place in a user manual. Denys> I beg to disagree: when you buy a physical device, you expect the Denys> manual to contain instructions about maintenance. Same here, only Denys> more so. Denys> Things can be complicated enough as they are. Let's not make them Denys> harder by withholding crucial information. Thank you. I doubt that Dave was saying anyone should withhold anything. I think the gnus user manual is daunting enough to a new user without having an implication that you have to understand CVS as well as 6 kinds of buffer, umpteen backends, 3 kinds of score files... It might make sense to have a "developer manual", which might contain such things as guidelines, explainations about things like Incoming* files, instructions about how to use CVS, and anything else that a user of the development version should know that isn't relevant to a user of a released version. -- Laura (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139