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 Emacs maintainer Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:40:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87611hp2jk.fsf@red-bean.com> <87wptvdfqj.fsf@debian.uxu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446846073 20874 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2015 21:41:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 21:41:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 22:41:05 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 1Zuokl-00072d-G8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 22:40:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuokk-00030S-Pn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:40:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37371) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuokd-0002zD-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:40:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuokc-0002C2-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:40:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58497) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuoka-0002Aq-OT; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:40:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuoka-0006M5-90; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:40:48 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:31:33 -0500) 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:193471 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. ]]] The term "maintainer" has a special meaning in the GNU Project. Each GNU package has one or several people appointed to be in charge of it, and we call them the "maintainers" of that package. At present, you're the one and only Emacs maintainer. We could have more than one; at one point, Stefan Monnier and Chong Yidong were both Emacs maintainers together. If there is someone else you'd propose as a co-maintainer, please let me know; it might be a good idea. But there isn't any other Emacs maintainer now. To avoid confusion, let's not use the term "maintainer", unqualified, for any other meaning. It's up to you, as maintainer, how to organize the work on Emacs. If you delegate responsibility for some part XYZ of Emacs to another person, it is ok to call that person "the maintainer of XYZ", as long as it's clear that that person is not an Emacs maintainer. -- 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.