Re: Discuss new features/enhancements or large changes for users in emacs-devel [was My resignation from Emacs development]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:25:43 -0500
> 
>   > Bug#73853 was not about language-design decisions, it was about
>   > deprecating a macro.
> 
> I can see two possible meanings for what "Bug#73853" refers
> to in that sentenbce:
> 
> 1. The original bug report which started that thread in bug-gnu-emacs.
> 
> 2. The discussion thread which started with that bug report.

It is both, actually.

> Could it be that (1) was about deprecating that macro, 
> and (2) started off there by wandered into a discussion of
> choosing major modes for various programming languages?

No.  This is a misunderstanding: bug#73853 has nothing to do with
choosing major modes.  That bug was about and-let* and when-let*, and
was brought up here as an example of a discussion that should have
been taken to emacs-devel, because it (allegedly) was about the
language design of Emacs Lisp.

> While the discussion was about deprecating a macro, discussing it
> in a bu report ticket made sense.
> 
> Once it changed to be about proposals for controlling major modes,
> someone should have moved it to emacs-devel.

It never did.  Instead, someone in that discussion mentioned in
passing some aspects of language design related to the discussion.
That was a tangent that fortunately didn't deflect the discussion.

I think you confuse this with another bug, bug#69191.  That one was
about remapping major modes from the get-go.