On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 04:16:11AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > I know, since 1983. Tying together the missing bits is a laudable > effort, but it is not the most pressing effort of the GNU project.
There is no such thing as "most pressing effort" for a group of volunteers. We share a common goal, and then we set our own schedule. Person A and person B may work on different subtasks. If person A thinks that person B's subtask is not very pressing (everybody has a right to his own opinion after all), and convinces person B to stop this work, this does not mean automatically that person B will continue to work on person A's preferred subtask. To pick up your example, working on "freeing Javascript" is a laudable effort; but I am definitely not going to contribute to it, even if I were to stop other activities. Andreas
