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: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 10:13:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5610207A.2000300@harpegolden.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443968050 1092 80.91.229.3 (4 Oct 2015 14:14:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 14:14:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 04 16:13:58 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 1Zik32-0006hg-BE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 16:13:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42556 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zik31-0005rO-PX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 10:13:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54433) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zik2k-0005r9-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 10:13:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zik2j-0003Ee-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 10:13:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56264) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zik2i-0003Cq-Ep; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 10:13:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zik2h-0006lw-Pj; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 10:13:35 -0400 In-reply-to: <5610207A.2000300@harpegolden.net> (message from David De La Harpe Golden on Sat, 03 Oct 2015 19:37:46 +0100) 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:190882 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. ]]] You're right that three people can't deadlock -- but I hope that the people in a group of maintainers will reach consensus through persuasion, rather than deciding by voting. Stefan and Yidong were able to reach decisions together, and did not need to do it by voting. -- 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.