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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
Cc: arne_bab@web.de, me@eshelyaron.com, Emacs-tangents@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Blog post
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:01:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831qbora48.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-502055c6-77e7-495e-8e9a-e1b56e2280c6-1702570856602@3c-app-mailcom-bs13> (emacs-tangents@gnu.org)

> Cc: Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com>, Emacs-tangents@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:20:56 +0100
> From:  Christopher Dimech via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other
>  Emacs mailing lists <emacs-tangents@gnu.org>
> 
> I put the emphasis on the maintainers themselves to eliminate chaos within
> their project.  The latter could be the specific area where our opinions differ.  
> Users typically focus upon specific details, whereas software designers focus on
> making everything work well together.  From my experience, being a maintainer requires 
> a higher level of concentration and control of the external.

It is quite clear to me from what you wrote above that your mental
model and vision of maintainership of a project like Emacs are very
different from the reality, starting from what does it mean to be a
maintainer of such a project and what is its job description.

Given that, your criticism is mostly off-mark.

---
via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)

  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-14 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-14  7:09 Blog post Eshel Yaron
2023-12-14  7:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2023-12-14  8:30   ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-12-14  9:22     ` Christopher Dimech
2023-12-14  9:29       ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-12-14 12:16         ` Christopher Dimech via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
2023-12-14 12:46           ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
2023-12-14 13:11             ` Emanuel Berg
2023-12-14 16:20             ` Christopher Dimech via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
2023-12-14 17:01               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-12-14 18:57                 ` Christopher Dimech via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
2023-12-14  9:33       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-10 23:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-11  9:26   ` Eshel Yaron

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