Re: My resignation from Emacs development

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  acm@muc.de,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 08:01:37 +0800
> 
> "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >    > I've had continual trouble over the last ~20 years with what Stefan has
> >    > done, and how he's done it.  Nobody else even comes close.
> >
> >    I can only say that I completely disagree with your unfavorable (to
> >    say the least) description of Stefan's conduct here, and regret and am
> >    very sorry that you somehow came to these conclusions, which IMO are
> >    very wrong.
> >
> > This has been brewing for a long time and you're putting your head
> > into the sand Eli, Alan is utterly on point.  Your comment is not
> > helping to mitigate the damage that has been caused in the least, and
> > making it worse.
> 
> Yes, there has lately appeared a ``relentless modernization drive'', if
> you will.  Most of these changes are not worth the controversy they
> create.

Given that many community members seem to think our current approach
is actually too conservative and prevents faster progress, I guess the
reality is somewhere in the middle, probably quite farther from that
"relentless modernization" than you seem to imply.