From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature freeze Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:37:36 +0000 Message-ID: <20150922103736.GA3539@acm.fritz.box> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442918214 23883 80.91.229.3 (22 Sep 2015 10:36:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 22 12:36:46 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeKwE-0006Ti-2h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:36:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38310 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeKw8-0000hz-3Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 06:36:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42746) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeKvv-0000hr-7I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 06:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeKvr-00019w-AV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 06:36:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:63793) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeKvr-00018u-19 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 06:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 65793 invoked by uid 3782); 22 Sep 2015 10:36:16 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p5B146294.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.20.98.148]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:36:16 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3728 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Sep 2015 10:37:36 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190235 Archived-At: Hello, Stefan. On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 03:39:55PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Time is up! > I think it's about time we freeze the features for Emacs-25. There are > a few things I hope can still make it into this new release, (such as > the xwidget branch (long overdue) and the dynload/modules, for example), > so the exact schedule and details are still up for discussion. > But I'll leave these decisions to someone else, because I also take this > opportunity to step down as head maintainer. > It's time for me to move on, and it's time for new blood to take > the lead. I'm not about to disappear, but I won't be reading > emacs-devel (nor bug-gnu-emacs) at least for a while, so if you need > something from me, put me explicitly in the Cc. > Thank you all for bearing with me as head maintainer, it's been a great > ride, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Yes, all good things come to an end. Thanks for all the hard work over the years (and decades), and wishing you a more relaxed and less stressful future. We're going to miss you! > Stefan -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).