Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes:
>
>> This tells me that this development community (or at least certain
>> people in it) don't want my contribution for inexplicable reasons, in
>> particular not technical reasons.  I do not see any possible sensible
>> definition of "the needs of the Emacs Project" that would lead to the
>> behavior I've seen from certain people here, so I disagree absolutely
>> that it could possibly be a misunderstanding on my side.
>>
>>
>> Moreover, I've been warned about emacs-devel by multiple people before,
>> and about a certain member of it in particular, and I did not believe it
>> could possibly be this bad.
>
> You don't need to speak in riddles.  I am quite used to seeing my name
> explicitly written in such contexts.

This had nothing to do with you.  The bug report discussion hopefully
makes it clear who I'm talking about.  Sorry about the misunderstanding,
really.

> However, if you take the time and sort the replies according to their
> authors and look at what each individual actually has been writing
> rather than your current recollection, you'll find that your impression
> of an ongoing attack is simply untenable.  Even if you focus on my
> contributions to that thread (and I'm not really much of a regular or
> typical here even though I have tried providing missing perspectives to
> several recent discussions recently with, I hope, mostly constructive
> results).
>
> The impression of a concerted attack that you fancy comes more about by
> several people sharing the same opinion and experience than by an
> insider/outsider setting and your recollection gets carried away with
> what you want to remember about the discussion.
>
> Really, reread the stuff and in particular find the parts that you
> remember as being particularly egregious.  You'll find that your
> recollection is playing games with you more than the people on this list
> are.
>
>> Lest you think this is an isolated case.  Maybe the previous victims
>> were less outspoken so the majority of the community still doesn't see
>> that there's a serious problem.
>
> If everybody tells you the same, chances are that "everybody is wrong
> then" is not the whole truth.

Really sorry that I had you waste time writing all this, it really had
nothing to do with you. :-)

I could have been clearer in who I meant.

Taylan