From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: ams@gnu.org, hi-angel@yandex.ru, eliz@gnu.org,
arne_bab@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: contributing to Emacs
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:39:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jn26buz.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1qBRWh-0001Vf-Aj@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2023 22:55:27 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> That was a big discussion and I've been very backlogged. It seems to
> be around 150 messages, according to grep. I can't read that many!
> It would take me hours.
>
> It seems to be a matter of ease of maintenance, not directly a specific
> technical point, and not an ethical issue. I think the active maintainers
> are the best people to decide this.
No active Emacs developers, aside from Eli and me, have commented on the
technical aspects of the issue.
> 1. Why would it be a fork, rather than updating a set of changes as has
> happened with Emacs for MacOS?
That hasn't happened with Emacs for Mac OS. The NS port is part of the
GNU Emacs distribution.
> 2. Why would a fork be a very bad thing?
Because we will soon have a proliferation of subtly incompatible
varities of Emacs.
> 3. Could you please tell me in 20 lines what the crucial issue is?
> Has someone proposed a policy that we don't install a big change
> if only one person can understand it?
Not ``if only one person can understand it'', but rather ``if there is
_currently_ only one person who understands it.''
> 4. Could we recruit Android wizards to help work on it?
Probably, if the necessity arrives. However, the work is finished.
All that remains is to install the changes.
Thanks.
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2023-06-16 11:20 Android port of Emacs Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-16 13:03 ` Po Lu
2023-06-16 13:17 ` Po Lu
2023-06-16 15:16 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-16 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-16 16:34 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-16 19:34 ` Bob Rogers
2023-06-16 23:46 ` Po Lu
2023-06-18 2:10 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-17 0:49 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-17 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-17 9:28 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-17 13:34 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-17 16:47 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2023-06-17 18:11 ` contributing to Emacs Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-17 18:36 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2023-06-17 19:39 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-17 21:00 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2023-06-17 21:10 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-17 21:19 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2023-06-17 21:26 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-17 22:25 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2023-06-17 22:39 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 5:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 8:53 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 9:01 ` Po Lu
2023-06-18 9:23 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 9:25 ` Po Lu
2023-06-18 10:04 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 10:07 ` Po Lu
2023-06-18 9:57 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2023-06-18 9:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 9:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 9:21 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 12:00 ` Michael Albinus
2023-06-18 13:29 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-06-18 22:46 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-19 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 9:18 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 9:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 21:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-06-18 10:00 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-06-18 10:15 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 10:22 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-06-23 6:49 ` Sean Whitton
2023-06-24 15:37 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-06-25 7:40 ` Sean Whitton
2023-06-25 11:32 ` Setting 'vc-default-patch-addressee' in .dir-locals.el Philip Kaludercic
2023-06-18 12:13 ` contributing to Emacs Po Lu
2023-06-18 12:26 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 13:43 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2023-06-18 14:57 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-18 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 18:52 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-18 19:10 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2023-06-18 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 20:10 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-19 2:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-19 6:05 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-19 18:07 ` David Masterson
2023-06-19 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-19 21:29 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-19 22:49 ` David Masterson
2023-06-20 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-20 15:45 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-20 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-20 16:32 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-06-20 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-20 19:49 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-24 1:44 ` Björn Bidar
2023-06-24 3:10 ` Po Lu
2023-06-24 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-24 7:54 ` Michael Albinus
2023-06-25 2:25 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-25 16:41 ` Corwin Brust
2023-06-25 23:31 ` Björn Bidar
2023-06-26 16:47 ` Ian Kelling
2023-06-27 11:08 ` Yuchen Pei
2023-06-27 13:52 ` Corwin Brust
2023-06-28 4:33 ` Björn Bidar
2023-06-29 3:03 ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-03 2:32 ` Björn Bidar
2023-07-03 4:25 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-07-05 2:07 ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-04 1:58 ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-05 13:19 ` Yuchen Pei
2023-07-09 2:53 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-27 1:05 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-28 2:18 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-20 16:24 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2023-06-20 16:33 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-19 22:47 ` David Masterson
2023-06-20 1:17 ` Po Lu
2023-06-20 2:24 ` David Masterson
2023-06-20 7:01 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2023-06-21 0:51 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-21 4:13 ` Po Lu
2023-06-21 4:23 ` David Masterson
2023-06-23 1:47 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-23 2:28 ` Po Lu
2023-06-25 2:25 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-20 11:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 8:34 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2023-06-18 8:58 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 0:50 ` Po Lu
2023-06-20 2:55 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-20 3:39 ` Po Lu [this message]
2023-06-21 9:20 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-06-22 1:56 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-22 2:23 ` Po Lu
2023-06-22 7:47 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-06-22 7:59 ` Po Lu
2023-06-22 8:38 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-20 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-17 21:44 ` chad
2023-06-18 9:26 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-18 10:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 10:30 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-18 10:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 11:00 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-18 10:57 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 8:59 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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2023-06-18 10:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-06-18 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-06-18 12:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 12:24 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 15:20 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-18 10:54 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-18 11:11 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 12:10 ` Po Lu
2023-06-18 12:28 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 12:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 13:02 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 13:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 13:32 ` Po Lu
2023-06-18 13:50 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 10:12 ` Po Lu
2023-06-18 10:22 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 12:09 ` Po Lu
2023-06-18 12:30 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 13:29 ` Po Lu
2023-06-18 13:55 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 12:33 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-18 13:30 ` Po Lu
2023-06-18 13:57 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-23 6:51 ` Sean Whitton
2023-06-23 7:06 ` Po Lu
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2023-06-23 7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-24 7:21 ` Sean Whitton
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2023-06-24 12:36 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-24 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-24 16:17 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-24 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-25 7:39 ` Sean Whitton
2023-06-18 9:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 10:19 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-18 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 10:50 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-18 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-16 15:49 ` Android port of Emacs Thomas Fitzsimmons
2023-06-16 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-16 23:45 ` Po Lu
2023-06-16 21:19 ` chad
2023-06-17 0:11 ` Po Lu
2023-06-17 6:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-17 6:38 ` Po Lu
2023-06-17 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-17 7:08 ` Po Lu
2023-06-17 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-06-17 8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-06-17 9:57 ` Po Lu
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2023-06-17 6:57 ` Po Lu
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2023-06-17 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-17 7:33 ` Po Lu
2023-06-17 7:54 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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2023-06-17 16:47 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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2023-06-19 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-19 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 1:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-06-18 1:24 ` Po Lu
2023-06-18 2:07 ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-06-20 13:29 ` Po Lu
2023-06-22 22:49 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-06-23 0:22 ` Po Lu
2023-06-23 7:37 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-06-23 8:52 ` Po Lu
2023-06-26 15:18 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-06-27 0:39 ` Po Lu
2023-07-01 14:13 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-06-24 12:17 ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-06-24 13:01 ` Po Lu
2023-06-24 13:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2023-06-25 2:02 ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-06-25 4:04 ` Po Lu
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2023-07-02 12:59 ` Po Lu
2023-07-02 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-13 13:54 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-07-13 23:56 ` Po Lu
2023-07-02 13:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
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2023-06-25 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-26 6:11 ` Takesi Ayanokoji
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2023-06-18 3:05 ` Po Lu
2023-06-18 22:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-06-19 0:39 ` Po Lu
2023-06-19 12:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
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2023-06-18 5:48 ` Po Lu
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2023-06-18 22:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
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2023-06-23 9:05 ` Po Lu
2023-06-23 10:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-23 11:38 ` Po Lu
2023-06-23 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-06-25 0:10 ` Po Lu
2023-06-25 2:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-06-25 4:15 ` Po Lu
2023-06-25 5:10 ` Jean Louis
2023-06-25 5:57 ` Po Lu
2023-06-30 4:57 ` Jean Louis
2023-06-30 5:12 ` Po Lu
2023-07-04 12:27 ` Jean Louis
2023-06-26 2:12 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-23 12:33 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-06-24 7:30 ` Sean Whitton
2023-06-25 2:25 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-25 2:40 ` Po Lu
2023-06-27 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
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2023-06-27 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
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2023-06-18 6:20 ` Gregory Heytings
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