Re: Changes in font locking

Reiner Steib writes: And from only one developer. (I am not XEmacs's counterpart to rms, you know.) Which is precisely why they're not particularly relevant to the general stance of XEmacs, only to *this* developer's response to *this* one bug. For *this* bug, you were *supposed* to be discouraged. I've now said at least four times that *I* won't fix *this* bug, although as you know now, I'm perfectly happy to commit *somebody else's* fix for it. But I had my reasons, and I assure you that had the ChangeLog from Stefan not appeared, *I* would likely have said "no" again. If you think what I do and say significantly affect the XEmacs code base, well, I guess I have to admit I'm flattered---but you're wrong. I'm no superprogrammer; I can make a perceptible difference only over years. Working on your bug would only mean I can't work on something else. And if what I say about fixing any given bug matters, it's only because the other core developers are happy to have cover as they focus on the issues they consider important. In general, we do read all reports, we fix the bugs we can, and we refuse to promise to fix bugs that we don't have the resources to fix. We help users who try to help themselves. "Best effort", just like every other free software project. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta