Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Leo Vivier <zaeph@zaeph.net> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> I don't think we need to assume that.  Emacs's extensibility and
>>> customizability mean that there are plenty of beneficial suggestions
>>> that users can make to each other without getting active core
>>> developers involved.  And when a topic does warrant the attention of a
>>> maintainer, then someone from the new list can come find one (perhaps
>>> by posting on Emacs Devel if appropriate).
>>
>> Do you really think this will work?  I don't, FWIW.  How can a group
>> of people not involved with development answer non-trivial questions,
>> suggest reporting useful bugs and feature requests etc.?  Even
>> help-gnu-emacs would not be the same without several developers
>> dwelling there.  Posting to emacs-devel is a slippery path to making
>> this new list a branch of the existing ones, something that this
>> initiative wants explicitly to avoid.  I'm probably missing something
>> here.
>
> I share Eli’s position on the matter.  As interesting as the underlying
> project might be, I believe it’s a little premature to create a new
> list, especially if we’re not articulating it with anything else.
>
> Getting more people to use Free software within the academe is a cause
> close to my heart, and many people seem to be sharing this sentiment in
> the wake of the EmacsConf 2020.  I’ve scheduled a meeting with some of
> the interested parties to start the discussion and formulate next-steps
> with the hope that we might spearhead the federation of that community
> in 2021.  In the meantime, I would invite people who are interested in
> the project to bide their time; we’ll publicise soon enough.

This sounds very interesting, and something I'd love to participate in!
I will bide my time :)