Re: Maintainers and contributors

[Jay Belanger]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:32:02 +0200
>> Cc: address@hidden, emacs-devel <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Maybe it would have helped if Eli had handed off the discussion
>> completely to someone else at a point of time when it became obvious
>> that things were going nowhere.
>
> I would consider it unfair to hand off such a "discussion" -- unfair
> to the person to whom I'm handing it off.  If someone wants that crown
> of thorns, they should volunteer.

Even then, if this became some sort of policy it seems that it might
encourage potential contributors to avoid compromise and hope that
someone else down the line will cede to the potential contributor's
demands. 

> And even then, certain attacks of personal nature cannot be ignored or
> left without a proper response.