From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Ada-mode to be abandoned? Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:55:56 +0200 Message-ID: <83o7dxqe03.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a5phiap4.fsf@posteo.net> <83plydqi63.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23230"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org To: Dmitry Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 07 17:56:28 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rMWRo-0005qA-3r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:56:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rMWRU-0006WI-62; Sun, 07 Jan 2024 11:56:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rMWRT-0006W5-3H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2024 11:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rMWRR-0003gZ-Tm; Sun, 07 Jan 2024 11:56:05 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=TKDRzngRPhLzQfFFECFSVen4wscrSzLFCLXIbrFeGRw=; b=bUSdhD7bULta 06w7MTNegI8vVgORHddvbV6Ge1NEVeAFpgtBWKCoAuaYtNiFKuovendJkWWcExBEJBsncPHwf3lP7 Fqz8GbETL6RlbmZyYaEDlGiiKKJgxmblL3sLOW1IR5RcnHp/e3hKxitqAfaVeE8yTEhknfwA4rfug az0eh4ZkkmrR4akjaUi6XkaGKTXCXSSug6K8c8xR84nuyX9tzaaaw9Ww5UF3SB8pgpTTFawcD2ihQ BNBAdNY2ip7jfnRUJ7X9iIj5IOfowxzjhAjV0f0YUXD1Xy2dr53M1LYvCa524c3jVXCjie0Umpc0V T35MRTMqczYLuNk+gjvFJw==; In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry on Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:54:23 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:314700 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:54:23 +0200 > From: Dmitry > Cc: "Philip Kaludercic" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, > "Stephen Leake" > > 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? > 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? > Or recall the recent troubles with Org, which wasted a lot of everybody's time. Org's development rate is much higher than ada-mode could ever be. > Also, > AFAIR, the fact that ada-mode was moved out of core was deemed a > mistake at the time, no? > > Deemed a mistake by whom? Not by the author, as I recall. That's not my recollection. But I could be mistaken.