From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New maintainer Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:24:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443752729 2574 80.91.229.3 (2 Oct 2015 02:25:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 02:25:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 02 04:25:14 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 1Zhq25-0001eH-Am for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 04:25:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57076 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhq24-0005HB-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhq1q-0005H0-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:24:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhq1p-000853-TB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:24:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56943) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhq1p-00084f-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:24:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhq1m-0008Ri-PT; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:24:55 -0400 In-reply-to: (johnw@newartisans.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:190620 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Being the Emacs maintainer (or a comaintainer) is a different job from developing Emacs (although normally the maintainer also participates in development). The maintainer is in charge of Emacs development on behalf of the GNU Project. The maintainer's job is to manage the development, not necessarily to do it. I think that two maintainers would be ideal, but three could work. More than that would be difficult as it would be hard for them to make decisions together. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.