Re: Ada-mode to be abandoned?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07/01/2024 18:55, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:54:23 +0200
> > From: Dmitry <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> > Cc: "Philip Kaludercic" <philipk@posteo.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
> >   "Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 7, 2024, at 5:25 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> >   OTOH, adding it to core shouldn't interfere with anything.
> >
> > It's an extra burden to contributors: due to the limitations of our development 
> > workflow, everybody has
> > to be subscribed to everything.
>
> Are there many contributors to ada-mode?

I'm talking about Emacs contributors.

> > Perhaps it doesn't make a difference to you, but I routinely have to page 
> > through notifications for
> > commits and bug reports to features that I have no interest in (nor ability to 
> > meaningfully contribute).
> > Such as ERC, for example.
>
> Email filtering could help with that, perhaps?

Probably not: the commit messages are not always used consistently, and 
if one filters out messages by body contents, it risks false positives, 
e.g. in cases where a commit touches many packages as once.