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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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250177 Archived-At: ndame writes: >> what are those other features which could bring much more tangible benefits for the user > > BTW, somebody on Reddit said "I would easily pay $10 a year to have someone > dedicated to work on Emacs. Many of us have employers that I guess would be > willing to pay a dime as well." and others agreed. > > Emacs Reddit has 40k members and it may be goal with which many of its members can sympahtize. > > Do you think it could help Emacs if it had someone working on it full time, > checking bug reports, taking care of all the usual things, fixing bugs, etc. > thereby lightening the load on maintainers and core developers, so they have > more time for developing features? I can't even imagine how much Emacs would evolve if Eli got full-time payed jobb on Emacs ....