From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bastien Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes for emacs 28 Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 15:02:01 +0200 Organization: GNU Message-ID: <875z8pg2pi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20200906133719.cu6yaldvenxubcqq.ref@Ergus> <20200906133719.cu6yaldvenxubcqq@Ergus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33960"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: "Alfred M. Szmidt" , Ergus , Andrea Corallo To: Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions." Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 07 15:02:56 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kFGnP-0008hO-8b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2020 15:02:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34372 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kFGnO-0005r5-A7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2020 09:02:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57688) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kFGmd-00052A-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2020 09:02:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41924) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kFGmc-0005b7-P3; Mon, 07 Sep 2020 09:02:06 -0400 Original-Received: from lns-bzn-32-82-254-31-120.adsl.proxad.net ([82.254.31.120]:49166 helo=guerry) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kFGmZ-0002om-LY; Mon, 07 Sep 2020 09:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: by guerry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CB2621A60D7C; Mon, 7 Sep 2020 15:02:01 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Andrea Corallo via's message of "Sun, 06 Sep 2020 20:49:25 +0000") X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254633 Archived-At: Hi Andrea, Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions." writes: > IMO our ultimate goal should be bringing more people into Emacs, GNU, and > Free Software. As many as we can I'd say. You also need to keep a good balance between maintainers, contributors and users--one that allows users to exert their famous freedom through software that is both free and well maintained. > I fear pleasing ourselves with a nostalgic toy may not be most effective > strategy there. As Eli said, nobody here is paid for working on Emacs, so if there is a good idea out there (and Stefan's concept of profiles looks good to me) then you need to work on it or to convince someone else to do so. 2 cents, -- Bastien