From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Issues with emacs Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:49:07 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87bokbb4zw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340495416 22198 80.91.229.3 (23 Jun 2012 23:50:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:50:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 24 01:50:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sia5n-0007Qh-58 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 01:50:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44495 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sia5n-00040s-2X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:50:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="eEvqGQsJJYL9/mBIdBpRPw"; logging-data="31155"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX196sWQPjemptJSbBftDagT+aRjbvt5DKxU=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cWHereKLXunyN+mrJcL0He7KvrU= sha1:kJ5CK8pA+8tKR1bKhtWIcDZDDJo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193007 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85402 Archived-At: Tom writes: > Bastien gnu.org> writes: > >> >> The good news is that, whether Emacs users are a dying breed >> or not, the only remedy to this hypothetical issue is to have >> more Emacs developers. >> > > But how to have more developers. I see 3 possibilites: > > 1. Motivate more users to be volunteer developers? Any idea how > to do that? > > 2. Attracting more users. Volunteer developers are some small > percent of the active user base, so if Emacs can be mode more > attractive to users then the bigger user base will bring more > volunteer developers too. The problem is in order to be more > attractive Emacs needs new features which other editors/IDEs have > and which make users to choose those editors/IDEs instead of > Emacs, and to implement those more competitive features Emacs > needs more developers. > > 3. Crowdfunding. If we don't have enough volunteer developers > then we need to motivate developers with something else. For > example, paying for their work. For this model to work there > should be some public exposure of this idea, so potential > developers know they can potentially make a living while > contributing to Emacs. This kind of public exposure could be done > by RMS who could mention this development model in every > interview he gives. He has the voice which can reach lots of > ears, including potential developer ears. 4. Have a whole bunch of missing functionality. -- Dan Espen