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From: | Glenn Morris |
Subject: | Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map |
Date: | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:23:23 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
"Juanma Barranquero" wrote: > I was not talking specifically about recent discussions. It was the > feeling gathered after five years of emacs-devel. All user-visible > changes cause long threads, heated comments and few decisions. (I find a killfile improves the signal-to-noise ratio.) I don't like the "poisonous people" tag, but the following has some valid points: http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2006/07/oscon_how_open_source_projects.html The premise for their talk was: Attention and focus are your scarce resources and you need to protect them. Poisonous people tend to distract communities and scatter the attention and focus of the people who should continue developing new features or fixing bugs. Communities must avoid deadlock by not letting people derail forward progress. For instance, people in the community can ask endless questions or focus on perfection (in a design or feature set) and bogart the attention of developers.
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