I mostly agree. When people say that there is some value to using Github.com where the tooling use is marginal, that’s where the network effect gets me a little concerned, as to whether we’ll all have choices in the future. And the IAB should be a little concerned about that as well, given all of their focus on market concentration. Eliot > On 3 Aug 2019, at 22:10, Randy Bush <randy@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > i think that wg charters should mandate emacs. :) > > we have a variety of tools, a variety of people, and a variety of needs. > there are no perfect tools, perfect people (present company excepted, of > course), and unsophisticated needs do not match our unbounded desire for > corner cases. > > we have a work-product funnel with a fairly wide mouth and a well- > defined end. this is a feature, not a bug. > > i use nekked git, gogs, github, and still a remnant of RCS <blush>. i > use emacs and xml2rfc. i do not feel a need to tell you what [not] to > use; and will not take seriously your telling me what [not] to use. > it's hard enough to get substantive work done without being > over-processed and/or micromanaged. > > i recently co-authored a draft where a major contributor still uses > nroff. i focussed on the content, and only snarked once. > > and i deeply appreciate the tool-makers who have given us a fairly rich > variety from which to choose. and i am in awe of the makers and fellow > users who help when i do a st00pid or hit a bug. thank you. > > randy >
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