Re: My resignation from Emacs development

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  ams@gnu.org,  acm@muc.de,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 07:59:38 +0800
> 
> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I suspect that Po Lu (and Alan) were talking more about the increase
> > in the use of cl and pcase (which I still havenʼt got my head around,
> > and now we already have cond* as well).
> >
> > Robert
> 
> Not this time.  My anecdote for this round of controversy is the
> obsoletion of if-let at the whim of a select group of people in the bug
> tracker, exactly when most users have just integrated it into their
> muscle memory.
> 
> What is this doc string meant to imply, for example?
> 
>     This macro will be marked obsolete in Emacs 31.1; prefer `if-let*'
>     in new code.
> 
> Why is there now a manner of "pre-obsoleting" functions?

Emacs 31.1 is pretty far away, so there's still time to discuss this
and change the decision, if there's an agreement.  Jonas Bernoulli
posted a comprehensive critique of that decision, and we should expect
the people who involved in that discussion to consider his arguments
very seriously.

It is unrealistic to expect that no controversial decisions will ever
be made in a community where more than a single individual installs
changes.  What is important is to keep cooperative spirit even when
we disagree with the eventual decisions.  Because presumably our
common goal is more important than disagreements here and there.