From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New Emacs maintainer Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 03:27:32 +0100 Message-ID: <87wptvdfqj.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87611hp2jk.fsf@red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446776293 16551 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2015 02:18:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 02:18:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 03:18:04 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 1ZuWbI-0001Qg-Dd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 03:18:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36277 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuWbH-000141-MA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:17:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58602) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuWbE-00013W-5u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:17:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuWb9-0003yj-6U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:17:56 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42692) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuWb8-0003ye-Vh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:17:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuWb6-0001D2-EJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 03:17:48 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 03:17:48 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 03:17:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 55 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:u0pGGV7b/f1CsrkRwVYvoGnk6hQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:193365 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: > Thank you, to everyone!! > > I think the key to avoided burnout will be not > trying to do everything myself. There are excellent > people in this community, who together have more > time and energy than I will in a lifetime. If I can > coordinate them, and help them focus on what they > find fun and interesting, not only will this job be > easier for me, it should be more fun for everyone. > We're doing this because we love Emacs, right? > Pursuing one's love ought to make the time spent > feel worth every second! if not, there's an obstacle > we need to remove. OK, so you are the maintainer of all of Emacs? How does that work? :O Are there "submaintainers" for parts of Emacs - I don't mean third-party add-ons (e.g., Emacs-w3m) or for that matter software found in the ELPAs, which are obviously stand-alone projects. I mean for example help.el? In the header, it says Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org Does that mean you? On my Debian, the maintainer of emacs24 is Rob Brownin, however I take it that refers to the Debian package, not the Emacs source. Anyway, according to cloc [1] I have written 95 files of Elisp totalling 3721 lines of code. That doesn't strike me as neither a lot nor something insignificant... But I feel pretty confident because it works. I mention this because if you have something that has been abandoned or left half-baked I'm happy to lend a hand. I can be an asset in part because what I like in technology, few others like (which is sad for me and... them). So if everyone wants to do LaTeX it is good if at least a few want to do groff. (Actually I like LaTeX and Biblatex as well.) You know what I'm saying? Do you have a TODO list or anything? Keep it real :) [1] http://cloc.sourceforge.net/ -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573