Re: CEDET maintainer

[Fermin <fmfs@posteo.net>]

Thanks for the help Stefan, I will start the branch tomorrow and began 
to make some changes.

> Great, thanks, feel free to Cc me along the way.  I think what we mostly
> need is to "get started" by picking some simple patches which can be
> easily integrated into Emacs (and then work our way up to more
> challenging changes).
Yes, at first, some patches can help in some regard, (Anand really have 
some interesting features) but I think
that CEDET need some deep changes, I will elaborate more on this in the 
future, mostly with the "more in depth" analysis,
for now, I will make a branch and start working in the overall code, and 
cleaning some TODOs, then I'm planing on first
taking into account the functionality of EDE, which I think it can be 
expanded and improved, but as I said, I will explain it more
in the (I hope) near by future.

Regards,

Fermin


On 27/03/2021 23:40, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> I think the first thing would be to start the copyright assignment
>>> process so that your contributions can be incorporated into Emacs.
>>> For that please fill the form below and send it to the FSF as instructed
>>> so they can send you the relevant paperwork to sign.
>> I already sign the papers for contributing to Emacs (mostly because
>> I contributed to the GNU Emba repository).
> Ah, indeed, sorry I didn't look carefully enough (I looked for
> `fermin` without accent, duh! ;-)
> Even better.
>
>>> - IIRC there were changes in the upstream CEDET code which still haven't
>>>     been merged into Emacs's `master`.
>> Yes, I talked with Eric, and there are test and other code that wasn't
>> merge, among related packages like cogre, which didn't
>> merge into Emacs at the time, adapting the code to fit in master would in
>> deed be really interesting.
> Right, some parts didn't get included, indeed, but IIUC in addition to
> that, there are changes that were made later in the upstream repository
> (to files which do exist in Emacs's `master`) and which haven't been
> propagated to Emacs's ` master`.  Maybe I misremember and they did all
> get propagated at some point, of course.
>
>>>    Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com> has a branch of CEDET (sadly
>>>     based on Emacs as of a year ago) at https://gitlab.com/atamariya/emacs
>>>     which includes various interesting additions (such as an SQL
>>>     grammar).  I recently started to try and work with him to start
>>>     merging some of those changes into Emacs's `master`.
>> I talked with Anand privately about the changes, I think they can be a nice
>> additions to CEDET, I can help with the merging process.
> Great, thanks, feel free to Cc me along the way.  I think what we mostly
> need is to "get started" by picking some simple patches which can be
> easily integrated into Emacs (and then work our way up to more
> challenging changes).
>
>
>          Stefan
>