Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Questions have been asked on this mailing list, for example those whose > headers I just quoted in my previous message.
> | <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-08/msg00076.html> This is not a question; it is a libc patch. > | <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-07/msg00278.html> I see no question about the Hurd here. What I see is a feature-extension request for Mach, together with a partial interface specification. > | <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-08/msg00065.html> I see no question here. This is a bug, not a question, and I for one see no problem with the patch proposed. I am not, however, the one who checks in changes to the Hurd source these days. > | <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-08/msg00069.html> I see no question here. As for the change suggested, I would want to see some research on how this patch performs in practice. > <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2004-12/msg00242.html> I see no question here. I see a feature extension request for Mach. So, to sum up, if you have a question about design, ask a question. Questions are in the interrogative mood, come complete with question marks, and so forth. Requests for feature extensions, bug fixes, and the like, are not the same thing as questions. >> Specific questions ("why was it designed this way?" "how >> should that work?") much more frequently get replies. > > Hm. Really? Sometimes they do, but often enough they don't. Please, example? > Shall it really be common practice that you (the maintainers) have to be > CCed for every (sensible) question? > Don't you read the mailing list(s)? > (Those are questions, not criticisms.) I do read the mailing lists; I use gnus with sensible nnmail-split-fancy, so anything CCed to me will simply land in the same place that it would without. When I see a patch, I do not answer it if there is no question. Thomas _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
