Re: Ada-mode to be abandoned?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:54:23 +0200
> From: Dmitry <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> Cc: "Philip Kaludercic" <philipk@posteo.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>  "Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> 
> On Sun, Jan 7, 2024, at 5:25 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
>  OTOH, adding it to core shouldn't interfere with anything.
> 
> It's an extra burden to contributors: due to the limitations of our development workflow, everybody has
> to be subscribed to everything.

Are there many contributors to ada-mode?

> Perhaps it doesn't make a difference to you, but I routinely have to page through notifications for
> commits and bug reports to features that I have no interest in (nor ability to meaningfully contribute).
> Such as ERC, for example.

Email filtering could help with that, perhaps?

> Or recall the recent troubles with Org, which wasted a lot of everybody's time.

Org's development rate is much higher than ada-mode could ever be.

>  Also,
>  AFAIR, the fact that ada-mode was moved out of core was deemed a
>  mistake at the time, no?
> 
> Deemed a mistake by whom? Not by the author, as I recall.

That's not my recollection.  But I could be mistaken.