From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reordering etc/NEWS Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:23:20 +0200 Message-ID: References: <876470ekuz.fsf@red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178882610 13115 80.91.229.12 (11 May 2007 11:23:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 11:23:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eli Zaretskii" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 11 13:23:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HmTDc-0003GZ-P9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 13:23:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HmTL2-0008H3-6v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 07:31:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HmTKy-0008Gg-7Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 07:31:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HmTKw-0008D8-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 07:31:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HmTKw-0008Cj-0y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 07:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.235]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HmTDV-0005Fr-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 07:23:21 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s17so859208wxc for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 04:23:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JXg4SUedWYl5LndApL9drDftaeg+hhZnhPP/mllDAfNjuPfy5CiAl1+Ay0BmbFjpMWZ5LifIxcgoyK0WludRK1QNsiQFq4JcFsLVt5IAZRkZyTqxzixfY855MxhJVBoAAI8OjJKtQ8Zm8xzKucVyNj/7bGLnMJ5MBnVtMkS2e4M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cs68ZuUxaLZ6mhLsm/DKrOE9anaF90j7I60ji5EVvabk5C715QSDoRHAv4xFgajbNV5Zu47JteNjDQg20Z78Qp7pkNUnEATo3we+HecnK3TEtd9mLWWAIwPO6ETZYZUBJxr/x4PXN0zLMjt8bSHGMB3rnykKuGhWZNlLp+OJtuc= Original-Received: by 10.90.92.7 with SMTP id p7mr2685982agb.1178882600875; Fri, 11 May 2007 04:23:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.103.8 with HTTP; Fri, 11 May 2007 04:23:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:70800 Archived-At: On 5/11/07, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > The MAINTAINERS file was born out of the last similar discussion we > had; it was supposed to become a starting point for bringing people on > board who would volunteer to become our experts for specific areas. > You can take a look at it: since its introduction in November 2001, it > got exactly 4 non-trivial changes, and an alarming amount of core > files and packages still have no responsible expert associated with > them. Although what you say it's true, it's also true that many elisp packages, for example, have maintainers (which varying degrees of "officialness") whose commitment is not explicitly stated in MAINTAINERS: ada-mode, desktop, kmacro, ido, bookmark, eshell, customize, vc, tramp, ibuffer, ps-*, gnus, etc. Moreover, many packages are simple, or very infrequently updated, and do not need a maintainer per se (not that it would be bad they had it, of course :) So MAINTAINERS is not a good indicator of the status of support. Juanma