From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New Emacs maintainer Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:31:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87611hp2jk.fsf@red-bean.com> <87wptvdfqj.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446777152 28727 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2015 02:32:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 02:32:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 03:32:27 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ZuWpH-00076R-6i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 03:32:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36325 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuWpG-0004Lc-1D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:32:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34907) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuWp2-0004LX-7b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:32:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuWoy-0008RL-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:32:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yk0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c07::22e]:34816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuWoy-0008RH-1V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: by ykek133 with SMTP id k133so167027845yke.2 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:32:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:in-reply-to:date:message-id:references:user-agent :mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type; bh=8JOsOy+FM8OaNsavZ6GV/fbGoTRHJ+3dCw/fqO6zDJY=; b=H6ygtgaL2yiFsUZA1Ar6cKBIcdw9RlRyQvqkrGvJQmPDBUsJronJlYWi8xKBFiwnIL ZtC8i5/Ulhe96hGeqFK8fCwSVoTmwfZx/td29uOk11Z8tH3E6UnDohefCroBWrdEALPh LG3K30ZsdYkftv1TV7wgV6VO+o9+tZjWR7DG7QDR8BJI9EdX107IYlL920TOUSoDIDEJ tK7WiJFmV7yBX4+yxYO+zTBiLUDEHAxELVZWFC7+KdH4rtu+aK2/Zb98RqbTXZn29CSb QZoN4+MVj4OgeBm8cwAk8mbm01aPemW970aafjFDge5NJDIfdl9Uus9GTsoURvqe4Pf3 FZog== X-Received: by 10.31.44.77 with SMTP id s74mr10058564vks.124.1446777127600; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:32:07 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Hermes-2.local ([216.57.92.130]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l67sm6877069vke.19.2015.11.05.18.32.06 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:32:07 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Hermes-2.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 17E5A48EF5DD; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 21:31:36 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87wptvdfqj.fsf@debian.uxu> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Fri, 06 Nov 2015 03:27:32 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4002:c07::22e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193370 Archived-At: >>>>> Emanuel Berg writes: > OK, so you are the maintainer of all of Emacs? How does that work? :O The most appropriate title, I believe, would be "managing maintainer", or "head maintainer". There are several people whose level of commitment to the project places them in the role of "maintainer" in my eyes, such as Eli, Artur, Juanma, Stefan, Chong, etc. They truly help to maintain Emacs, by working on bugs, contributing code, answering questions, writing tests, etc. My decisions more often concern people matters, technical direction, legal issues, coordinating with the FSF, scheduling releases, etc. > Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Does that mean you? It means the whole Emacs development community who has subscribed to that mailing list. Anyone desiring to take an active role in Emacs development should be subscribed to this list, although it is not required. > On my Debian, the maintainer of emacs24 is Rob Brownin, however I take it > that refers to the Debian package, not the Emacs source. Correct. > Anyway, according to cloc [1] I have written 95 files of Elisp totalling > 3721 lines of code. That doesn't strike me as neither a lot nor something > insignificant... But I feel pretty confident because it works. Every line of Elisp that serves you well is precious. :) > I mention this because if you have something that has been abandoned or left > half-baked I'm happy to lend a hand. I can be an asset in part because what > I like in technology, few others like (which is sad for me and... them). So > if everyone wants to do LaTeX it is good if at least a few want to do groff. > (Actually I like LaTeX and Biblatex as well.) You know what I'm saying? Do > you have a TODO list or anything? I'd love for someone to take care of our under-appreciated components. The TODO list right now is largely the bugtracker. Would you be willing to comb through some of the older reports, and find those bugs that no longer reproduce, or help resolve those that have patches needing review? Such a role would be extremely helpful. John