From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Helping with MPS Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:44:53 +0300 Message-ID: <861q2iue8q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877ccbb3a9.fsf@protonmail.com> <87frqy5quh.fsf@gmail.com> <865xruugm4.fsf@gnu.org> <87ed6idjsu.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="406"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: pipcet@protonmail.com, gerd.moellmann@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jcm@SDF.ORG To: Helmut Eller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 21 16:45:53 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sgmau-000ASs-6r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:45:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sgma9-00021D-IB; Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:45:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sgma2-0001aB-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:44:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sgma1-0006oI-0X; Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:44:57 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=TMUOqmdZrooMGO1vTK0+he8oV4lF0pY/OcPCw3bSwSo=; b=JiUDpMarQyWg Wr2mknK+fqrJ2O63BWLiwB+gjdtGsoExrclTR35mPrEt6A6DbaPYvVW54ejygfQn38QVdQn9bNmBn q0ksHJypyzFiGUBMl4I5GvhT2i3kHBZxK13MiG5p6ZgpVpnP5jxCBjUMtAN1rO2YNtDzo9pqjKGI6 NtmEPfJNlVP1zaR1hUyLJ1fcEMhPU5IbjDacFiZUPgsbeio4bX2TxO+8E+mxT449LNEUD9Hkeji94 f72nOpaDEtfqb/ZnF7/BK28CTPO7BA2b+4AJX5rGTRMqIyAO1yOMOQ4UZHrWFqjMPbEOMKLwHjAzk 7xe6njMhWyEeOwVUOuaUaw==; In-Reply-To: <87ed6idjsu.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Helmut Eller on Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:36:49 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:323007 Archived-At: > From: Helmut Eller > Cc: pipcet@protonmail.com, gerd.moellmann@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > jcm@SDF.ORG > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:36:49 +0200 > > On Wed, Aug 21 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > How intensive is the development of MPS? > > Looks quite dormant at the moment. Maybe they only work on it if a > customer requests something. Dunno. > > > how many commits did they > > have for, say, the last year? > > git log | grep '^Date:.* 2024 '|wc -l => 0 > git log | grep '^Date:.* 2023 '|wc -l => 343 > git log | grep '^Date:.* 2022 '|wc -l => 7 > git log | grep '^Date:.* 2021 '|wc -l => 27 Thanks. Yes, looks quite dormant. My point was that if they are actively developing the library, we'll have hard time keeping up. But it doesn't seem it will be a problem, so forking does seem practical. But if we fork, why not simply add it to the Emacs Git repository? why do we need a separate repository on GitHub?