From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathieu Lirzin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New maintainer Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:58:39 +0200 Message-ID: <874miapdhs.fsf@openmailbox.org> References: <560CCEBA.9080607@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443729817 22206 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2015 20:03:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 20:03:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: John Wiegley , Andreas =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=B6hler?= , Emacs-devel To: Xue Fuqiao Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 22:03:29 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 1Zhk4d-0003um-CW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:03:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56013 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhk4c-0007Kr-Us for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:03:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34250) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhk0I-0004y8-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhk0F-0003QL-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:58:58 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp10.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.44]:36729) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhk0F-0003PT-IB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:58:55 -0400 Original-Received: by mail2.openmailbox.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8C6CE2AC1385; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 21:58:54 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=openmailbox.org; s=openmailbox; t=1443729533; bh=l8T0zAFF+E42ovNHhGcjR2txKMgLK+oAFjNATYRgZ9E=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=UOG/bsbpQEwZLHCOJZkOQmlHwmHuqWzvGS5UxcDIp4Q3Bj0yEEHcMCYSKZ8jSwyFS 1p3VjRE3Oh+sbaYqZ0VJtjtSPE/uHnlG8TeOYUQtng6sKWQf9FG0GW9ROSN3NwtOcQ 0yp+AfaVQQPQILvxt5o+gNh7GIBGBG40uo96e+g0= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=openmailbox.org; s=openmailbox; t=1443729521; bh=l8T0zAFF+E42ovNHhGcjR2txKMgLK+oAFjNATYRgZ9E=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=LLE2TOXvVy+/YJID0AIMZkyR2VdAYqS9lDbIvJZ0hcCAj7SopmCa4ipM5RjTxWSlo cNoyot+cTwJ+7NS1EDbfdLUnafXhwsupJdopepcO1iIt9FxeSp6tkfK5i/tcIQ7leR BdiszncqBUffFneNjAzh7VEuiklomXYGLwS4/UbQ= In-Reply-To: (Xue Fuqiao's message of "Thu, 1 Oct 2015 22:44:46 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 62.4.1.44 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:190588 Archived-At: Xue Fuqiao writes: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Andreas R=C3=B6hler > wrote: >> knowing you as author of some really awesome libraries, > > I agree. John is a very smart Emacs hacker. IIRC he is the author of > (at least) align.el, cal-bahai.el, eudcb-mab.el, isearchb.el, > pcmpl-cvs.el, pcomplete.el, remember.el, timeclock.el, Eshell, and the > `use-package' macro. He has also contributed to Org and some other > Emacs packages. I think most Emacs users have used his code. Besides > Emacs Lisp, he's also quite familiar with many other languages, such as > Common Lisp, C++, Java, and Haskell. What about Ethical skills? I would argue that technical skills are not sufficient especially for maintaining a major GNU package like Emacs. Using MacOSX & iOS as main operating systems and Hangout/Skype for communications, seems incompatible with the role to me. -- Mathieu Lirzin