Re: Taming some chaos

["John Wiegley" <johnw@newartisans.com>]

>>>>> John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org> writes:

> The Emacs community has long felt like a collection of bright, polite coders
> pursuing individual visions and scratching personal itches. In your postings
> to the ML it seemed you were interested in stepping forward to provide the
> leadership needed to get us to rally to vision of an enticing Emacs future.
> Articulating such a vision inherently involves contrasting it with the
> current state of affairs. I had hoped that my note would be taken as a
> contribution to a discussion about things could be improved.

Hi John!

I apologize for apparently having misread your intent completely. Reading this
last message, I couldn't agree with you more, both in sentiment and approach.
I think we want almost exactly the same things.

Please allow me take back any criticism of your ideas as being too wild, and
encourage you to rephrase them with an eye to "maintaining existing value".
Can we correct past decisions in the light of new advances, in a way that
carries forward the merits of that past?

I find myself in the strange position of wanting change -- even radical change
-- while equally wanting to respect the tremendous value and experience we've
built up over the decades. Striking this balance at the right points is key.

John