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Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)?
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)? |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:39:34 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Do you still plan to turn over Emacs maintenance to someone else?
> >
> > I would still like to do so.
>
> What can the Emacs development community can do so that this happens
> sooner rather than later?
> I am asserting that your time is extremely valuable, it is better
> spent working on FSF/Free Software in general (and technical issues in
> Emacs rather than management issues).
>
> > Have you made a decision on who is going to be the new Emacs
> > maintainer(s)?
> >
> > I have not made a plan.
>
> Here a modest proposal to advance in that direction: name Chong Yidong
> as the 22.x maintainer (assuming he wants the job), his work on
> pushing 21.1 out was outstanding.
++version. While I agree that his work on 22.1 was outstanding, one
has to be aware that the main task of a maintainer is not writing
code, but rather setting (and following) policies, and organizing,
motivating and structuring the work of others.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Post-22.1 development?, (continued)
- Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)? (was: Re: Post-22.1 development?), Richard Stallman, 2007/06/05
- Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)? (was: Re: Post-22.1 development?), Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/06/05
- Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)?,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)?, Karl Fogel, 2007/06/05
- Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)?, Chong Yidong, 2007/06/05
- Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)?, Kim F. Storm, 2007/06/06
- Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)?, David Kastrup, 2007/06/06
- Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)?, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/06
- Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)?, Kim F. Storm, 2007/06/06
- Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)?, David Kastrup, 2007/06/06
- Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2007/06/06
- Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)?, David Kastrup, 2007/06/06
- Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2007/06/06