Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2020-12-21 19:17]:
> > Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 10:04:53 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > Cc: abrochard@gmx.com, rms@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > 
> > There are many volunteer organizations where people make a plan of
> > action. Volunteer or not, it is not related to planning. Especially if
> > one wish to spare the time for developers it is better to have a
> > development plan.
> > 
> > It could be a simple list of most important issues to be handled for
> > Emacs.
> > 
> > When such list is published maybe more contributors could be drawn to
> > it.
> 
> We have that: etc/TODO.  But that isn't a "plan" in any reasonable
> sense of the word, it's just a list of useful features that we would
> like to have at some point.  Sometimes, not very frequently, someone
> comes and actually takes up one of those jobs.
> 
> But much more frequently, someone comes up with an implemented feature
> and submits it for inclusion, and we usually accept it.  Since there's
> no way to plan that in advance, almost all of Emacs development moves
> by such submissions which no one planned in advance.
> 
> Frequent contributors to Emacs probably have their own personal plans,
> and work according to them as their time permits.  But these personal
> plans are almost never coordinated with anyone else.

It works amazingly by willingness and contribution.

> I don't see how anything different from the above could ever work, as
> long as the project continues to be a loosely coupled group of people
> with very disparate interests.  (I also see nothing wrong in how we do
> things, FWIW.)

What is in your opinion priority for Emacs?