From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A new major-mode for Python Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:52:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297810377 9708 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2011 22:52:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:52:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel To: Fabian Ezequiel Gallina Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 15 23:52:52 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PpTlL-0006OH-KL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:52:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PpTlL-0004ZR-4j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:52:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57086 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PpTlG-0004ZC-FB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:52:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PpTlF-00071a-B1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:52:46 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:50988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PpTlF-00071L-7d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:52:45 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p1FMqfrD002241; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:52:42 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 98D67B4106; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:52:41 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Fabian Ezequiel Gallina's message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:05:59 -0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3735=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:136080 Archived-At: > I have come up with a *new* major-mode[1] for Python Help!!! More seriously. Rather than a new python mode I'm interested in a maintainer for our python mode (i.e. someone who will fix bugs in it, add new features, and will accept to work with us when we want to make changes that he does not like, typically to make it behave in a more standard way). So rather than replace our python.el with yours, I offer you to take over maintainership of our python.el. This may sound like a crappy offer (why would you maintain some old code you don't like when you already have your own that works better, right?), but note that, as a maintainer of our python.el, you'll have the opportunity to replace pretty much any of "our" code with yours, thus morphing our python.el into yours. Another way to look at it, is that I'm asking you to take a "diff old-python.el new-python.el" and cut it into manageable and meaningful patches, so it is easier to see that it is moving forward. Or maybe, what I'm asking really is to merge our python.el with yours. Stefan