From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: contributing to Emacs Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:56:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83v8fnslfz.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8fnh1h2.fsf@web.de> <83mt0zs9rc.fsf@gnu.org> <0a968a4e1b267c0f15dd237e6ea12a709fc06d5e.camel@yandex.ru> <838rcisj7o.fsf@gnu.org> <6537fa5fa5c1fe8437ed99ee0988e35895f5a54b.camel@yandex.ru> <8423a35750d8d8e0437c7708f6b4d0bbdfdb7fe0.camel@yandex.ru> <6981052a75913ea435ae2adaccdaa1c66252a6df.camel@yandex.ru> <6a22f3608f37e238ffbd20d6dead86d3aa76d01e.camel@yandex.ru> <87ttv5d261.fsf@yahoo.com> <874jn26buz.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1527"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ams@gnu.org, hi-angel@yandex.ru, eliz@gnu.org, arne_bab@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 22 03:57:53 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qC9a4-0000Ac-JS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2023 03:57:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qC9ZI-0007sl-HS; Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qC9ZF-0007nW-UD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qC9ZF-0002Bu-KZ; Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:57:01 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=0yxkocDx3Ru978TFRX43iVLpeNMXM/stSW02HpZKT6k=; b=OdNezCiTWuLi 8/dAtq86p5vFaaOo+wUH7qWiHFzsrMTOfzpkWg8bgdZbtHFnjgvnjFwWAZXsgYTsyvhOE3ZB5SGaw 24oScGzni0yKNd9jaHoGHi+Ss+aVQPikzjKQQwD1vBgU7idWkISevZECMlXL9sjs8B9j/hDFc/N8+ yAk5KnLSiscpRrX9agVwI3cna0dedrcOC/5MnLbBxYjeATxeOkemeh0ZLepiYlmvTVR/eQxz5e2+N AmeAemGaQ9T5mneDE8RuJZzvW/OGPzFS5DeT5EuuboGfEWR3Ka+z2bVhD7e43dQLuKKIVbRlWXCdE dVuwJ6b5whYVTfPKPbrdyg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qC9ZD-00076Y-PN; Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:56:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874jn26buz.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:39:32 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:307119 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. ]]] > > 2. Why would a fork be a very bad thing? > Because we will soon have a proliferation of subtly incompatible > varities of Emacs. I dom't think that is necessarily so bad. > > Has someone proposed a policy that we don't install a big change > > if only one person can understand it? > Not ``if only one person can understand it'', but rather ``if there is > _currently_ only one person who understands it.'' Could you show me the actual proposal that was made? > > 4. Could we recruit Android wizards to help work on it? > Probably, if the necessity arrives. However, the work is finished. > All that remains is to install the changes. What work does "the work" refer to? Various messages seem to say that the code that has been written is only partial support for Emacs on Android -- that some important features are not yet implemented. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)