From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New maintainer Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:47:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87eghbu429.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> References: <560CCEBA.9080607@online.de> <874miapdhs.fsf@openmailbox.org> <83oagg4buo.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443901709 22969 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2015 19:48:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 19:48:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@newartisans.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 21:48:20 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 1ZiSn5-00064G-EZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:48:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSn4-0007Mo-Gw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:48:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39861) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSn0-0007Jg-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:48:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSmw-0005bR-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:48:14 -0400 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:47943) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSmv-0005VM-W4; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:48:10 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=vRdtq2Td910cK6Eq3qX+kEl+e0pvXOT3WXTEssKGiU8=; b=tkKtyKXUR86Pru2EMewrgQSSY0ZCS7B+sGJpNKXc6pgiUZ1G5DH3Mr7KeE1tE+eUXP9jAk+g5tRhrVTdOMIe3kp5+YP/8aBS2C3wJ70tpfMuX5sVwoijTml+WJdfpGiQ; Original-Received: from ip4d1645ea.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de ([77.22.69.234] helo=isaac.fritz.box) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSmp-0008On-BN; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:48:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83oagg4buo.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 03 Oct 2015 11:04:15 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.45.97.173 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:190817 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > So, given this seemingly unsolvable contradiction, what do you, the > crowd, expect of the new maintainer? That he actually wants the job. Since we seem to be in the 'zero candidates' phase again, I have a hunch that this will be the biggest hurdle. I don't think that formulating a job description will be a good way of getting people to step up as candidates, as it will most likely look pretty daunting. -David