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: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 09:03:14 +0200 Message-ID: <5610CF32.6080701@cumego.com> References: <560CCEBA.9080607@online.de> <874miapdhs.fsf@openmailbox.org> <87pp0yktyx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <22029.59130.54156.957525@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87io6pnujl.fsf@red-bean.com> <874mi840si.fsf@wanadoo.es> <561034C3.2060101@cumego.com> <838u7j2lq0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443942216 4393 80.91.229.3 (4 Oct 2015 07:03:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 07:03:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 04 09:03:27 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 1ZidKR-000189-0K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 09:03:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41472 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZidKQ-0006wj-0j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 03:03:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZidKM-0006wT-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 03:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZidKI-0004Qt-Ua for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 03:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp10.iq.pl ([86.111.242.219]:41246) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZidKI-0004Pg-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 03:03:18 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 23790 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2015 07:03:15 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.1.102]) (esperanto@cumego.com@[159.205.196.239]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp22.iq.pl with AES128-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 4 Oct 2015 07:03:15 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: <838u7j2lq0.fsf@gnu.org> 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:190850 Archived-At: W dniu 04.10.2015 o 08:26, Eli Zaretskii pisze: >> IMHO one problem might be that, due to lack of roadmap and clear >> priorities, a lot of different things are developed at the same time, > > I don't think you can prevent that in a project as multi-faceted and > multi-discipline as Emacs, nor do I think you should want to. > [...] > People work on the itches they want to scratch. I think an attempt to > tell them what to do and what not to will be futile at best, and at > worst will make some go away. But still a roadmap, with prioritized features, would help to choose "the itches they want to scratch". Also it would help newcomers find out what to do. Anyway, it was just a proposition. The point is to find out how not too loose maintainers. If they would step down and stay as developers would be great. Maybe "exit interview" would help. ;-)