Re: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 21.11.2019 5:06, Richard Stallman wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>    > Both true. But I think authentication is an unavoidable burden anyway,
>    > at least if we aim to target a larger audience.
>
> Why do we _want_ to "target a larger audience" for bug tracking
> in particular.

The larger audience I meant here are the existing users of Emacs. A lot 
of which avoid reporting bugs to Debbugs. And I know that because I 
maintain some third-party packages with different issue trackers.

> Sure, all else being equal we would prefer to offer more
> convenient interfaces.  But is that such an imperative
> that we would want to pay a price for it?  I am skeptical.

Is hearing from all our users an imperative? I don't know. But we'd 
certainly something we'd like to have.