Re: My resignation from Emacs development

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > 1. Who would the rules apply to?  Presumably this would be anyone with
  >    commit access.

Everyone who writes or proposes feature changes for Emacs would be
asked to start discussions about them.

  > 2. Who would be enforcing the rules?  Would this be the maintainers or
  >    someone else?

All contributors would have that responsibility, and the maintainers
should be leaders in carring it out.

  > 3. What would be the recourse should the rules be broken?  Would they
  >    result in behaviour that is meaningfully different than what happens
  >    today?

We are all trying to work together here, so I don't think we need
"recourse" other than to remind people gently that "We should discuss
this on emacs-devel."  Any of us can start that discussion.  So if you
see that a change is being considered that calls for discussion on
emacs-devel, just forward one of the messages about it to emacs-devel.


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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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