From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new Emacs maintainer(s)? (was: Re: Post-22.1 development?) Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:32:23 -0700 Message-ID: <200706051632.l55GWNSZ026462@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> References: <878xb05ras.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200706041853.l54IrLXb006451@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181061292 21223 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2007 16:34:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:34:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 05 18:34:51 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 1Hvbza-0001DC-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:34:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hvbza-000248-6L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvbzX-000243-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:34:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvbzT-0001zU-Tl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HvbzT-0001z8-PN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:34:39 -0400 Original-Received: from oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HvbzR-0007la-Le; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l55GWNSZ026462; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:32:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 05 Jun 2007 01\:17\:32 -0400") Original-Lines: 20 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9 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:72279 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Do you still plan to turn over Emacs maintenance to someone else? > > I would still like to do so. What can the Emacs development community can do so that this happens sooner rather than later? I am asserting that your time is extremely valuable, it is better spent working on FSF/Free Software in general (and technical issues in Emacs rather than management issues). > Have you made a decision on who is going to be the new Emacs > maintainer(s)? > > I have not made a plan. Here a modest proposal to advance in that direction: name Chong Yidong as the 22.x maintainer (assuming he wants the job), his work on pushing 21.1 out was outstanding.