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: New maintainer Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 02:28:32 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443526183 23648 80.91.229.3 (29 Sep 2015 11:29:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:29:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 29 13:29:33 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zgt6C-0000db-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:29:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49894 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zgt6C-0008AC-6P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 07:29:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58217) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgoP0-0005A9-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 02:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgoOw-0001by-RE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 02:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:13859) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgoOw-0001bp-Nd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 02:28:34 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0BiEwA731xV/wihxEVcgxABhAGFVbs3CYFLhgAEgUA5FAEBAQEBAQGBCkEFhDlyASUYDYhjmy+0IIs6hSKEFwWzP4FFI4FHDIJBIoJ4AQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0BiEwA731xV/wihxEVcgxABhAGFVbs3CYFLhgAEgUA5FAEBAQEBAQGBCkEFhDlyASUYDYhjmy+0IIs6hSKEFwWzP4FFI4FHDIJBIoJ4AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="166230020" Original-Received: from 69-196-161-8.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.161.8]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 29 Sep 2015 02:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EF1F666110; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 02:28:32 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190476 Archived-At: So, now that I stepped down, we need to find a new maintainer (or a new maintainer-team). Don't be afraid: it's a fun job. Oldtimers take care of a lot of the work, and it's not like you need to know everything about Emacs's internals or anything (e.g. after all these years, the redisplay code is still very much foreign to me). My experience co-maintaining with Yidong was very good, so I'd recommend that. Of course, we'd also welcome people volunteering to take charge of particular sub-tasks, so as to reduce the overall load of the maintainer. E.g. taking care of GNU ELPA. But we still need a head maintainer, whose task is mostly to keep an eye on the general direction, can make a final decision when we can't reach an agreement (of course, we could also delegate that task to /dev/random), and to be the official contact point with the FSF. If you're still not sue the job is for you, think about all the side benefits, such as the fact that you can get as many copies of Emacs as you want *for free*, and you even get ssh access to fencepost.gnu.org! Stefan "I'm not in emacs-devel right now, so keep m in the Cc"