Re: Emacs and the elusive 21.0
>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz
<martin(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>> "DK" == Dhruva KRISHNAMURTHY
<Dhruva_KRISHNAMURTHY(a)delmia.com> writes:
DK> For offering to be a
Pre-Tester for GNU Emacs - The response I got!!
Martin> I've also been turned down.
Are you kidding?
I wonder what the first f-word stands for in the FSF :-)
DK> The Open Software development is NOT SO OPEN AS IT SHOULD BE!! I now know how
DK> open and accessable XEmacs. I admire the openess of XEmacs development
DK> community.
Martin> Even the XEmacs community is not as open as it should be.
>>> As far as I know, Emacs 21 isn't in pretest yet (but
might be any
>>> day). Also, there is a closed list of pretesters. Not sure whom to
>>> ask if you want to become a member.
>> <gerd(a)gnu.org> - However he's not keen on
"accepting" new
>> contributors untill the next release is out.
Martin> But Gerd is a good guy - the closedness is probably exclusively due to
rms.
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