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 23:00:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83pp0txez2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5610207A.2000300@harpegolden.net> <83fv1r3gzp.fsf@gnu.org> <83bncf3f9k.fsf@gnu.org> <5610E0BC.8090902@online.de> <83si5r106e.fsf@gnu.org> <831td9z18h.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444075269 10274 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2015 20:01:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 20:01:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 22:01:00 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 1ZjBwQ-000819-TA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 22:00:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47456 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjBwQ-0004VZ-8b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:00:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50128) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjBwM-0004VN-L8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:00:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjBwJ-00089H-E5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:00:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:54741) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjBwJ-00088y-5b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:00:51 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVR00400JGUUK00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 23:00:49 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVR004XRJLDMF90@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 23:00:49 +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:190967 Archived-At: > From: John Wiegley > Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:02:50 -0700 > > I also think that detail-level maintenance is far more likely to induce > burnout, since the flood at that level can be intense. Seeing the number of > replies by Eli and Stefan in the past few weeks has been impressive to say the > least, and requires a special kind of interest and energy to > maintain. Your observations regarding my responses are most probably biased due to a public holiday we had here for the last 3 weeks. That ends tonight. In general, I have much less time to work on Emacs than Stefan and many others here. > How do we best support them? How do we find more hands to make > lighter work for our stalwart contributors? Excellent questions.