Re: Richard Stallman: Emacs 19

Richard> I just searched all the messages I sent you in the past Richard> year; I found one message where I asked you to work on Richard> Emacs in addition to XEmacs, but no other messages about Richard> this. A gloss on this issue: When I made a small contribution to XEmacs, and inquired about making copyright assignment to the FSF, I immediately received a solicitation to work on GNU projects.[1] I took this as evidence in favor of the position presented by Campbell and Johnston. Evidently it is not; certainly the text of that message in no way suggested that I _stop_ working on XEmacs. (It also certainly omitted suggesting that I _continue_ to work on XEmacs.) However, given the facts that (a) through the GNU documents (including those included with XEmacs and given a place of honor in Info and the splash screen of XEmacs), your plea for assistance _specifically_ to the GNU project and the FSF is publically well known, and (b) volunteer developers have a limited amount of time to contribute, de facto it is not all surprising to me that many people interpret it as personal invitation to _switch_ projects, not add a new one. working on GNU Emacs in particular but for technical reasons currently prefer XEmacs. This is an explanation of my thought processes ONLY; perhaps it may have some applicability to others. Footnotes: [1] At the same time, I was instructed by the XEmacs maintainer that it was extremely desirable that my contribution be Emacs-compatible. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +1 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."