From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does Richard M. Stallman still scrutinize and develop the codes of Emacs now? Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 03:28:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87wnoez2rc.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <83sfzb9nx8.fsf@gnu.org> <87wnon9hvm.fsf@iki.fi> <87im06ri56.fsf@zoho.eu> <86sfz2e9mo.fsf@protonmail.com> <871r6m1ebm.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12296"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZEKkK5HosH3tecUy3Ym6srIDims= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 22 03:29:33 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1mHcIm-0002zN-0f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2021 03:29:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42920 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHcIk-0002Jq-Sa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 21:29:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57142) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHcI8-0002B4-Dc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 21:28:52 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:48518) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHcI6-0007VN-Vi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 21:28:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mHcI4-00023r-PV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2021 03:28:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132676 Archived-At: Jude DaShiell wrote: > By now possibly, but you failed to understand my original > post. When you want support for software to continue beyond > your life span it pays to locate and designate with their > agreement someone to take over lead development for you at > the appropriate time. The earlier you do this, the better if > you're careful in your selection process. It's like > continuity of government and why the United States has > a chain of titles 50 deep to replace the President. I doesn't matter but personally I don't think it works like that. If people care about the software, plenty of people will contribute to it, and it doesn't matter what you do. And if they don't, again it doesn't matter what you do, you can't make them. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal