Re: Adding major or popular language modes to Emacs distribution

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 28.08.2021 16:49, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc:philipk@posteo.net,hi@ypei.me,emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 16:42:43 +0300
> >
> > On 28.08.2021 16:37, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > When you say "we prefer" here you mean you personally, right?  Because
> > > there's no such project-wide policy, AFAICT, and I at least don't
> > > agree.
> > There is a known existing disagreement on this issue among contributors.
> If a contributor_wants_  to have the package in ELPA, that's his/her
> prerogative, which should be respected.  But in this particular case
> the contributor asked about our preferences, and that was what my
> response was about.

You stated your preferences, right?

Stefan's are different, and mine are as well (which is probably 
well-known at this point).

There are also many other proponents of "lean core", though I admit most 
of them, predictably, work on third-party packages rather than frequent 
emacs-devel.