Re: contributing to Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > 2. Why would a fork be a very bad thing?

  > Because we will soon have a proliferation of subtly incompatible
  > varities of Emacs.

I dom't think that is necessarily so bad.

  > > Has someone proposed a policy that we don't install a big change
  > > if only one person can understand it?

  > Not ``if only one person can understand it'', but rather ``if there is
  > _currently_ only one person who understands it.''

Could you show me the actual proposal that was made?

  > > 4. Could we recruit Android wizards to help work on it?

  > Probably, if the necessity arrives.  However, the work is finished.
  > All that remains is to install the changes.

What work does "the work" refer to?  Various messages seem to say
that the code that has been written is only partial support for Emacs on 
Android -- that some important features are not yet implemented.


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