From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philip Kaludercic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 12:53:44 +0000 Message-ID: <87o850j3fr.fsf@posteo.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21197"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." 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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:283502 Archived-At: xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." writes: > The idea that there is something culturally wrong with the core > development of Emacs is not new; see Open Letter to the Emacs > Maintainers from 2016 for one example. But let me give my own > impressions. Does someone have a link to this open letter? All I can find is https://medium.com/@fommil/open-letter-to-the-emacs-maintainers-226cb67a961f, and that article was removed. If the article is from 2016, I don't assume that it brings up anything I haven't heard of before, but I'd still like to give it a read. > I understand this is well-intentioned, and it is usually done in an > unfailingly polite manner. But it has usually come across to me as > gaslighting, and it's my opinion that the culture surrounding Emacs > core development, in aggregate, strongly discourages new contributors > from joining the community, especially if they are a member of a group > which is traditionally underrepresented in open-source. (Like people who prefer to not use GitHub/GitHub-like workflows?) -- Philip Kaludercic