From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)? Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:01:01 +0200 Message-ID: <46646F7D.6020903@gmail.com> References: <878xb05ras.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200706041853.l54IrLXb006451@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <851wgrsecq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85vee3qzc0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180987279 12782 80.91.229.12 (4 Jun 2007 20:01:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 04 22:01:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HvIjn-0001fJ-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:01:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HvIjm-0005ae-UA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:01:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvIjk-0005aT-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvIji-0005a3-P7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HvIji-0005a0-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HvIje-0006Iz-Oh; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:59413 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1HvIjc-0001wq-8q; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:01:01 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <85vee3qzc0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000747-0, 2007-06-04), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.24 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HvIjc-0001wq-8q. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HvIjc-0001wq-8q f7ea5ef26ca4ec54ac65d4e7152fab14 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72229 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >>> From: David Kastrup >>> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:34:45 +0200 >>> Cc: Chong Yidong , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org >>> >>> If candidates can be found, it might be an idea to have different >>> maintainers for the Emacs 22 and the Emacs 23 series since there are >>> somewhat conflicting focuses and interests. >> You are presumably so optimistic as to think we can find more than one >> maintainer... > > Look up "If" in a dictionary of your choice. Anyway, even if we can't > afford more than one manager, we could look for someone with multiple > personalities in order to fit both the Emacs 22 and Emacs 23 > requirements. It should not be any difficulty. Emacs has so many different sides so you really have to have some kind of split personality to master all sides of it.