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: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:05:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5610207A.2000300@harpegolden.net> <83fv1r3gzp.fsf@gnu.org> <83bncf3f9k.fsf@gnu.org> <5610E0BC.8090902@online.de> <83si5r106e.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444064773 1625 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2015 17:06:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 17:06:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@newartisans.com, andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 19:06:02 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 1Zj9D8-0004Y7-7m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:06:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9D7-00020b-Oi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:06:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9D2-0001xr-OV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:05:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9D1-0005st-UX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:05:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:49867) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9Cu-0005kZ-V1; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:05:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9Cu-0001Ph-5n; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:05:48 -0400 In-reply-to: <83si5r106e.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 04 Oct 2015 11:56:57 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 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:190944 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. ]]] > All true and agreed, but _some_ minimally useful degree of technical > knowledge is required for the decision making. We can't expect the impossible. A perfect Emacs maintainer would be familiar with all the code in Emacs. We won't find a person like that, but Stefan has shown that a less-than-perfect maintainer can do a good job. -- 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.