From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New maintainer Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:03:09 +0200 Message-ID: <874mi840si.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <560CCEBA.9080607@online.de> <874miapdhs.fsf@openmailbox.org> <87pp0yktyx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <22029.59130.54156.957525@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87io6pnujl.fsf@red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443873829 5894 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2015 12:03:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 12:03:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 14:03:40 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 1ZiLXM-0007Dz-CR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:03:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38144 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiLXL-0002Py-Sg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiLXI-0002Pq-0L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:03:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiLXD-000664-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:03:31 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33502) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiLXD-00065N-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:03:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiLX5-0006wF-8n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:03:19 +0200 Original-Received: from 148.red-83-45-65.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.45.65.148]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:03:19 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 148.red-83-45-65.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:03:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 148.red-83-45-65.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dN5sS4wZsb63/9CMDi1TdbZRyhY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:190782 Archived-At: Rustom Mody writes: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 10:32 PM, John Wiegley wrote: > >> >> I further think that working alongside Eli would be nice, if he's up for >> it. > > > A big YES from me also for this. Maintainers tend to burn out and eventually cease their contribution as developers. So I wish Eli does not become a maintainer. OTOH, appointing as maintainer someone who is not on the group of the most active developers but respected by the community is a good deal: that person will contribute more to Emacs than he usually does and when he goes away the Emacs day-to-day development does not suffer.