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Re: New maintainer
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Mathieu Lirzin |
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Re: New maintainer |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:58:39 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Xue Fuqiao <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Andreas Röhler
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> knowing you as author of some really awesome libraries,
>
> I agree. John is a very smart Emacs hacker. IIRC he is the author of
> (at least) align.el, cal-bahai.el, eudcb-mab.el, isearchb.el,
> pcmpl-cvs.el, pcomplete.el, remember.el, timeclock.el, Eshell, and the
> `use-package' macro. He has also contributed to Org and some other
> Emacs packages. I think most Emacs users have used his code. Besides
> Emacs Lisp, he's also quite familiar with many other languages, such as
> Common Lisp, C++, Java, and Haskell.
What about Ethical skills? I would argue that technical skills are not
sufficient especially for maintaining a major GNU package like Emacs.
Using MacOSX & iOS as main operating systems and Hangout/Skype for
communications, seems incompatible with the role to me.
--
Mathieu Lirzin
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