From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reordering etc/NEWS Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 18:46:22 +0300 Message-ID: References: <876470ekuz.fsf@red-bean.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178898392 6348 80.91.229.12 (11 May 2007 15:46:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:46:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 11 17:46:30 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HmXK9-00023r-66 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 17:46:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HmXRZ-0002bh-TM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 11:54:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HmXRW-0002bc-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 11:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HmXRV-0002bQ-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 11:54:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HmXRV-0002bN-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 11:54:05 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HmXK3-0001qb-Mb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 11:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-151-238.inter.net.il [80.230.151.238]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id HVB79229 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 11 May 2007 18:46:23 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: (lekktu@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:70826 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:23:20 +0200 > From: "Juanma Barranquero" > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 5/11/07, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > The MAINTAINERS file was born out of the last similar discussion we > > had; it was supposed to become a starting point for bringing people on > > board who would volunteer to become our experts for specific areas. > > You can take a look at it: since its introduction in November 2001, it > > got exactly 4 non-trivial changes, and an alarming amount of core > > files and packages still have no responsible expert associated with > > them. > > Although what you say it's true, it's also true that many elisp > packages, for example, have maintainers (which varying degrees of > "officialness") whose commitment is not explicitly stated in > MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS lists only core Emacs parts. Those are the parts where an unsafe change can cause serious breakage. I think there was an intent to add more files and packages to the list if most of those in the current one would get their responsible individuals, but since nothing happened, it died out. > So MAINTAINERS is not a good indicator of the status of support. It is a good indicator of support in the core areas.