Re: Ada-mode to be abandoned?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 04:14:15 +0200
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> On 07/01/2024 18:55, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:54:23 +0200
> >> From: Dmitry <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> >> Cc: "Philip Kaludercic" <philipk@posteo.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
> >>   "Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jan 7, 2024, at 5:25 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>
> >>   OTOH, adding it to core shouldn't interfere with anything.
> >>
> >> It's an extra burden to contributors: due to the limitations of our development workflow, everybody has
> >> to be subscribed to everything.
> > 
> > Are there many contributors to ada-mode?
> 
> I'm talking about Emacs contributors.
> 
> >> Perhaps it doesn't make a difference to you, but I routinely have to page through notifications for
> >> commits and bug reports to features that I have no interest in (nor ability to meaningfully contribute).
> >> Such as ERC, for example.
> > 
> > Email filtering could help with that, perhaps?
> 
> Probably not: the commit messages are not always used consistently, and 
> if one filters out messages by body contents, it risks false positives, 
> e.g. in cases where a commit touches many packages as once.

OK, but at least IME there's no problem at all to deal with the email
flow due to additions of packages.