Re: What's missing in ELisp that makes people want to use cl-lib?

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> This is a volunteer-based project, so we have no way of
> "distributing the maintenance effort", unless people
> volunteer to do it. In particular, for absolute majority of
> the Emacs code, the people who wrote the code are no longer
> on board. That's the reality.
>
> If you mean that the authors who are still here should be
> asked to take care of their code, then this is already being
> done, always, and cannot be done to any higher degree.

Yes, I understand, but we can still just hand out files to
people, "now you are maintaining this file". That person will
have to agree, of course.

For each such file handed out there is one file less for the
"maintainers of everything else" to handle.

Because what we heard was that there are often just a few uses
of cl-lib in some person's code, and that is manageable to
learn for the maintainer. Only in some other person's code,
there are also just a few such cases, but not necessarily the
same, so the maintainers of a lot of files, for them the
complexity increases for each file even tho the individual
files are not complex in their us of, say, cl-lib, really.

So if we give away a bunch of files to a larger group of
people, those people will not have an issue with cl-lib,
really, and at the same time both scope and complexity will be
reduced for the "everything else" maintainers.

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