Re: Android port of Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>]

On 18/06/2023 06:05, Po Lu wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:
> 
>> What will the difficulty be? If it just comes down to running 'git
>> pull upstream master' once in a while, then this can be a small price
>> to pay.
> 
> The difficulty lies the other requirements of a completely separate
> project: the use of my personal inbox as a bug report address, the
> unrelated bugs being reported there, having to distribute releases
> myself on ftp.gnu.org, and in general the division of my attention
> between Emacs and my own fork.

Ah, so you are worried about maintaining a separate project infrastructure.

Personally, I really recommend you try Gitlab/Github/SourceHut/Gogs/etc. 
If you can bear with using any of those, I'm almost certain that you 
will receive more and better bug reports through those, and maybe even 
additional contributors/maintainers.

But either way, like others said, developing the Android port in a 
separate branch -- or even in a separate repo -- doesn't necessarily 
preclude you from having access to Debbugs, ftp.gnu.org, and even the 
Emacs mailing lists. I'm sure most or all of those can be arranged.

>> If the merge conflicts are likely to be frequent, however, that's a
>> different matter.
> 
> I've only seen three or four merge conflicts over the past few months,
> all involving etc/NEWS.

Some larger time period could give more data, but so far it sounds like 
both conclusions can work relatively easily then: keeping Android port 
internally wouldn't result in too many additional conflicts for others 
to excise. But keeping it in external repo (or branch) shouldn't results 
in frequent conflicts either. And as a bonus, you don't have to use the 
same file for NEWS, so those 3-4 conflicts you mention would be avoided.