Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map

[Paul R]

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> "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.

Wow. This is sad to read such words in a "libre", community project
newsgroup. Really sad. But you might never read this, your killfile
protecting you from other people POV.