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: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 22:52:15 +0300 Message-ID: <83a8rz3f2o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <560CCEBA.9080607@online.de> <874miapdhs.fsf@openmailbox.org> <83oagg4buo.fsf@gnu.org> <87eghbu429.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443901960 26464 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2015 19:52:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 19:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@newartisans.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 21:52:31 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 1ZiSr6-0001vR-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:52:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSr5-0000Wh-M4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:52:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41329) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSr2-0000WB-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:52:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSqz-0007Q1-MX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:52:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:43314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSqz-0007Pq-FI; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVN00B00TLIIB00@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 22:49:38 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVN004GSTQP1690@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 22:49:38 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87eghbu429.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 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:190819 Archived-At: > From: David Engster > Cc: rms@gnu.org, johnw@newartisans.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:47:58 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > So, given this seemingly unsolvable contradiction, what do you, the > > crowd, expect of the new maintainer? > > That he actually wants the job. What job is that? What does it entail? > I don't think that formulating a job description will be a good way > of getting people to step up as candidates, as it will most likely > look pretty daunting. So you expect someone to volunteer without knowing what's expected from them? I'd say "good luck with that", but I very much hope to be proved wrong.