From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New maintainer Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:14:38 +0300 Message-ID: <831td9z18h.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5610207A.2000300@harpegolden.net> <83fv1r3gzp.fsf@gnu.org> <83bncf3f9k.fsf@gnu.org> <5610E0BC.8090902@online.de> <83si5r106e.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444065323 10726 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2015 17:15:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 17:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@newartisans.com, andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 19:15:16 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 1Zj9M4-0003xi-8S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:15:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46753 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9M3-0008RP-If for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35028) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9LY-0007fV-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:14:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9LU-00045L-4f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:14:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:63164) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9LT-00044v-U6; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:14:40 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVR00300BHCSS00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:14:38 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVR00379BWEN760@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:14:38 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:190951 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: andreas.roehler@online.de, johnw@newartisans.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:05:48 -0400 > > > All true and agreed, but _some_ minimally useful degree of technical > > knowledge is required for the decision making. > > We can't expect the impossible. A perfect Emacs maintainer would be > familiar with all the code in Emacs. We won't find a person like > that, but Stefan has shown that a less-than-perfect maintainer can do > a good job. No disagreement here, neither in principle nor wrt Stefan's work. The issue is merely how to organize the maintainership, and how to define the division of responsibilities with c-maintainers, if there will be such.