Re: Blog post

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2023 at 5:01 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: arne_bab@web.de, me@eshelyaron.com, Emacs-tangents@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Blog post
>
> > Cc: Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com>, Emacs-tangents@gnu.org
> > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:20:56 +0100
> > From:  Christopher Dimech via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions 
> > outside the scope of other
> >  Emacs mailing lists <emacs-tangents@gnu.org>
> >
> > I put the emphasis on the maintainers themselves to eliminate chaos within
> > their project.  The latter could be the specific area where our opinions 
> > differ.
> > Users typically focus upon specific details, whereas software designers 
> > focus on
> > making everything work well together.  From my experience, being a 
> > maintainer requires
> > a higher level of concentration and control of the external.
>
> It is quite clear to me from what you wrote above that your mental
> model and vision of maintainership of a project like Emacs are very
> different from the reality, starting from what does it mean to be a
> maintainer of such a project and what is its job description.
>
> Given that, your criticism is mostly off-mark.

Yes,  my vision of maintainership of any project is much different.