From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Przemys=c5=82aw_Wojnowski?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New maintainer Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:20:42 +0200 Message-ID: <560AE48A.2020504@cumego.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443647730 12570 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2015 21:15:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:15:30 +0000 (UTC) To: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 30 23:15:23 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 1ZhOia-0002hX-Sy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:15:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33312 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhOia-0000Ie-99 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:15:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48179) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zh0Uz-0003Uo-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:23:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zh0Uw-0002Ll-Cr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp10.iq.pl ([86.111.242.219]:41602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zh0SG-0001td-0k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 2192 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2015 19:20:43 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.1.106]) (esperanto@cumego.com@[159.205.203.96]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp22.iq.pl with AES128-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 29 Sep 2015 19:20:43 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 86.111.242.219 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:190485 Archived-At: Maybe it would be a good time to consider creating a Roadmap with vision of Emacs future and Product Backlog that would prioritize things? It's just a thought for consideration. I'm not in a position to tell others what to do. Cheers, Przemysław W dniu 29.09.2015 o 08:28, Stefan Monnier pisze: > So, now that I stepped down, we need to find a new maintainer (or a new > maintainer-team). > > Don't be afraid: it's a fun job. Oldtimers take care of a lot of the > work, and it's not like you need to know everything about Emacs's > internals or anything (e.g. after all these years, the redisplay code is > still very much foreign to me). > > My experience co-maintaining with Yidong was very good, so I'd > recommend that. > > Of course, we'd also welcome people volunteering to take charge of > particular sub-tasks, so as to reduce the overall load of the > maintainer. E.g. taking care of GNU ELPA. > > But we still need a head maintainer, whose task is mostly to keep an eye > on the general direction, can make a final decision when we can't reach > an agreement (of course, we could also delegate that task to > /dev/random), and to be the official contact point with the FSF. > > If you're still not sue the job is for you, think about all the side > benefits, such as the fact that you can get as many copies of Emacs as > you want *for free*, and you even get ssh access to fencepost.gnu.org! > > > Stefan "I'm not in emacs-devel right now, so keep m in the Cc" >