From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33169 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gunnar Evermann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: emacs21-branch (Re: ognus) Date: 03 Nov 2000 22:07:03 +0000 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> <200011021725.RAA12721@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> <200011031909.TAA14429@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169324 23694 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:02:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:02:04 +0000 (UTC) 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 3A9F9D049A for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:08:21 -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 QAB24480; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:07:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 03 Nov 2000 16:07:03 -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 QAA22446 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:06:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from spanner.eng.cam.ac.uk (spanner.eng.cam.ac.uk [129.169.8.9]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0587D049A for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:07:14 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from tigger.eng.cam.ac.uk (via root@tigger.eng.cam.ac.uk [129.169.80.71]) by spanner.eng.cam.ac.uk with ESMTP id WAA14760 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 22:07:12 GMT Original-Received: from hygiea.eng.cam.ac.uk (via IDENT:mailuser@hygiea [129.169.82.132]) by tigger.eng.cam.ac.uk with ESMTP id WAA12039 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 22:07:03 GMT Original-Received: (via ge204@localhost) by hygiea.eng.cam.ac.uk id WAA21827; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 22:07:03 GMT Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Dave Love's message of "Fri, 3 Nov 2000 19:09:10 GMT" Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Canyonlands) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33169 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33169 Dave Love writes: > >>>>> "GE" == Gunnar Evermann writes: > > >> What do you need to know to help you contribute that you think is > >> being kept secret? > > GE> FSF emacs pre-releases? > > Then you would be wrong. Of course, you can't contribute much without > an assignment and XEmacs maintainers probably have to demonstrate a > particular spirit of cooperation, but as far as I know they will get > what access they need to help. That's what I thought, but RMS apparently disagrees. At least he did when I asked for access to help contribute the bug fixes that we make to XEmacs to FSF emacs. I found that very frustrating and to be honest lost interest in helping FSF emacs at that point. I hardly find time to work on XEmacs these days anyway. Gunnar