From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New maintainer Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:46:46 -0700 Organization: New Artisans LLC Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443649044 1107 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2015 21:37:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:37:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 30 23:37:17 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 1ZhP3t-0005Uw-6w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:37:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhP3s-0000zk-JC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:37:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49695) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zh2jd-0004K9-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:46:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zh2jZ-0004U8-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:46:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22c]:33580) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zh2jZ-0004TL-It for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:46:49 -0400 Original-Received: by pacex6 with SMTP id ex6so17395317pac.0 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:46:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:date:organization:message-id :references:user-agent:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type; bh=oWmRSTv2h0olzjWC/CuMFUHUy9BbhSKnD0PPKD3oVfw=; b=ecYQxvUgX0Z80QZrGcBNpTfD6nChBMs2bHBhqa7HGEFVc4ev1/RWbj2V+UW/SDXl6C e5Qi4nnXtLj4OkFMNqKod7mekQcu/PgdLXLSP+it5NCpRuCHiDS0vOGOXTo2cvnOn0ck wfpqg5wjnXSMwxRuAHo2gUnBPDXWpAe26GmLy0Nciq/yhZWKUdzgxWMdGA/OPWWOLvtj myxdB/dToVieULmH9SW4YovzUm3qY1PZB0Fx1lucZNSK9xT2cQAw1B6EHjPGCJvWlTjO vCa1F33ZxAPzhoI/rcp8KB6QDS/GIQCXO4RsY/IJoV7HttncXD13Kjow6SW3V7qoyRGM 10rw== X-Received: by 10.68.69.17 with SMTP id a17mr363158pbu.10.1443563208520; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:46:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Vulcan.local (76-234-68-79.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net. [76.234.68.79]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z6sm27387223pbt.51.2015.09.29.14.46.47 for (version=TLS1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:46:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by Vulcan.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1720DEC6B363; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:46:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 29 Sep 2015 02:28:32 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22c 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:190487 Archived-At: >>>>> Stefan Monnier writes: > So, now that I stepped down, we need to find a new maintainer (or a new > maintainer-team). I'd like to self-nominate for that role, Stefan. I've been contributing to Emacs since 1994, and have loved it all the while. Emacs Lisp remains a very enjoyable language to write certain types of code in. Some things I'd like to see happen to Emacs are more efficiency, closing bugs, and wider adoption of some of our newest features, like lexical scoping. That said, I'm also excited by new prospects, and wonder what can be done in the area of concurrency (in some form), a new language under the hood (Guile?), etc. Emacs is my favorite application, by far, and the one I spend the most time in, both professionally and personally. It's my programming environment, E-mail reader, IRC client, task manager, note taker, and occasional shell. I'm hoping it will still be the best choice for these things after twenty _more_ years of use, and perhaps as head maintainer I could help keep things moving in that direction. John