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Re: New maintainer
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John Wiegley |
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Re: New maintainer |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:55:55 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) |
>>>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> Getting ideological about this saves oneself from sinking an arbitrary
> amount of effort in endeavors that are constantly under threats outside of
> the developers' control and can be killed at the whim of parties not
> interested in free software.
>
> I don't want an Emacs maintainer ultimately banking on the goodwill of Apple
> regarding the invested efforts. That's not an inspiring work environment.
I'm bitten by this _regularly_ in the Nix world, so I'm not seeking to tether
anyone to the developer churn happening over at Apple. Just this week I had to
downgrade to XCode 6.4, because 7.0 broke my entire world.
My OS X story for Emacs is mostly this: Give Mitsuharu Yamamoto whatever help
he needs. His "Mac port" variant of Emacs is all I could ask for in terms of
OS X support right now. I'd like to see it modernized under Cocoa, if at all
possible, or promoted to a build flavor in the master branch.
I'm not talking about upheaval here, just equal footing, and paying attention
to OS X (and other platform) gripes as they arise -- like the slow sub-process
bug in Cocoa Emacs that has been a show-stopper for some of us for several
years now.
You'll find I'm upfront with my opinions, but it's not my desire to alienate
*anyone* from participating, joyfully, in making Emacs a great community and
development experience.
John
- Re: New maintainer, (continued)
- Re: New maintainer, Michael Westbom, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Jens K. Loewe, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Ricardo Wurmus, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, John Wiegley, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Andreas Röhler, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer,
John Wiegley <=
- Re: New maintainer, David Kastrup, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, John Wiegley, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Christopher Allan Webber, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Juanma Barranquero, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Rasmus, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Karl Fogel, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, John Wiegley, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Rustom Mody, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/10/08