Re: My resignation from Emacs development

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Eli.

On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 15:48:06 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:01:52 +0000
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>

> > I've had continual trouble over the last ~20 years with what Stefan has
> > done, and how he's done it.  Nobody else even comes close.

> I can only say that I completely disagree with your unfavorable (to
> say the least) description of Stefan's conduct here, and regret and am
> very sorry that you somehow came to these conclusions, which IMO are
> very wrong.

The five anecdotes I outlined in detail in my post to Stefan K happened
as I described.  How can one avoid the conclusion I came to?

In the second of these (about Stefan M's change of interpreted functions
to opaque atoms) Richard posted to the thread five times.  In one of
these posts he described the proposed change as "perverse".  Stefan
ignored all five of Richard's posts, and bulldozered his change through
anyway.  Richard was unhappy about the change, and you were uncertain
about it, to say the least.  Stefan ignored both of you (as well as
being discourteous to me) and just ploughed ahead.

What does all this say about Stefan Monnier?

It was Stefan's commit after that thread, and the fact that nothing was
done about it, that caused me finally to lose enthusiasm for the Emacs
project.  Since then, I've kept going, basically by inertia and habit.

If you want to look at this thread again, it starts with this post:

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Distinguishing `consp` and `functionp`
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:15:48 -0500

..

One way or another, Stefan will have become aware of this thread.  He's
at liberty to answer and contest all the points I've made about him.  I
doubt he will do so.

Anyhow, I'm leaving.  I think I've now made it abundantly clear _why_
I'm leaving.

I still wish Emacs a successful future.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).