Re: CEDET maintainer

[Fermin <fmfs@posteo.net>]

Hello Stefan,

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I already sign the papers for contributing to Emacs (mostly because I 
contributed to the GNU Emba repository).

> I'm not very familiar with CEDET, but having converted it recently to
> use lexical-binding, I'm a bit less lost in it, let's say.  So I'd be
> happy to play the middle man between Emacs's `master` and you until we
> feel comfortable giving you direct write access.
That's great!, thanks for that

> - IIRC there were changes in the upstream CEDET code which still haven't
>    been merged into Emacs's `master`.
Yes, I talked with Eric, and there are test and other code that wasn't 
merge, among related packages like cogre, which didn't
merge into Emacs at the time, adapting the code to fit in master would 
in deed be really interesting.

>   Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com> has a branch of CEDET (sadly
>    based on Emacs as of a year ago) at https://gitlab.com/atamariya/emacs
>    which includes various interesting additions (such as an SQL
>    grammar).  I recently started to try and work with him to start
>    merging some of those changes into Emacs's `master`.

I talked with Anand privately about the changes, I think they can be a 
nice additions to CEDET, I can help with the merging process.

Regards,

Fermin


On 27/03/2021 22:22, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I'm proposing myself as a CEDET maintainer,
> Excellent!
>
>> If the Emacs maintainers, decide that I'm worthy of it, my initial
>> idea is to develop CEDET in a separate branch for now, even tho
>> I think the send patch workflow is valid, for a package like CEDET
>> that needs a lot of changes, this can really slow down the process.
> I think the first thing would be to start the copyright assignment
> process so that your contributions can be incorporated into Emacs.
> For that please fill the form below and send it to the FSF as instructed
> so they can send you the relevant paperwork to sign.
>
> I'm not very familiar with CEDET, but having converted it recently to
> use lexical-binding, I'm a bit less lost in it, let's say.  So I'd be
> happy to play the middle man between Emacs's `master` and you until we
> feel comfortable giving you direct write access.
>
> Adding an Semantic backend to Xref would indeed be a great first step.
> Other things that come to mind in terms of maintenance:
> - IIRC there were changes in the upstream CEDET code which still haven't
>    been merged into Emacs's `master`.
> - Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com> has a branch of CEDET (sadly
>    based on Emacs as of a year ago) at https://gitlab.com/atamariya/emacs
>    which includes various interesting additions (such as an SQL
>    grammar).  I recently started to try and work with him to start
>    merging some of those changes into Emacs's `master`.
> These branches are evidence of the need to try and merge things into
> Emacs's `master` promptly and regularly, otherwise it becomes hard to
> get them merged back and the risk of them getting lost in the long term
> is high.
>
>
>          Stefan
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