Re: My resignation from Emacs development

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,  ams@gnu.org,  acm@muc.de,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:14:55 +0100
> 
> >>>>> On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:03:33 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>     >> Yes, there has lately appeared a ``relentless modernization drive'', if
>     >> you will.  Most of these changes are not worth the controversy they
>     >> create.
> 
>     Eli> Given that many community members seem to think our current approach
>     Eli> is actually too conservative and prevents faster progress, I guess the
>     Eli> reality is somewhere in the middle, probably quite farther from that
>     Eli> "relentless modernization" than you seem to imply.
> 
> I suspect that Po Lu (and Alan) were talking more about the increase
> in the use of cl and pcase (which I still havenʼt got my head around,
> and now we already have cond* as well).

The increase in their use is real, but we don't allow it without
careful consideration.  In particular, they should not be used where
simpler constructs can reasonably do the job.

Other than that, this is a community project.  People must understand
that the maintainers are just stewards; we don't "own" the project,
and thus have no moral right to stubbornly oppose de-facto coding
practices that are overwhelmingly favored by the community (including
at least some of the maintainers, judging by their code).  Any demands
that we forbid use of cl-lib or pcase in Emacs are thus unfair at
best.