Re: New Emacs maintainer

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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The term "maintainer" has a special meaning in the GNU Project.  Each
GNU package has one or several people appointed to be in charge of it,
and we call them the "maintainers" of that package.

At present, you're the one and only Emacs maintainer.  We could have
more than one; at one point, Stefan Monnier and Chong Yidong were both
Emacs maintainers together.  If there is someone else you'd propose as
a co-maintainer, please let me know; it might be a good idea.  But
there isn't any other Emacs maintainer now.

To avoid confusion, let's not use the term "maintainer", unqualified,
for any other meaning.

It's up to you, as maintainer, how to organize the work on Emacs.  If
you delegate responsibility for some part XYZ of Emacs to another
person, it is ok to call that person "the maintainer of XYZ", as long
as it's clear that that person is not an Emacs maintainer.

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