Re: New maintainer

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> David Reitter <address@hidden> writes:

> Do you consider downstream projects a legitimate way of providing that
> experience on the basis of GPL principles without diluting the overall
> mission of the FSF and the GNU project?

Can you give an example?  I don't fully understand your question.

> By providing support and stability, the upstream project (Emacs) can foster
> an ecosystem that is ultimately a good advertisement to free software.
> Downstream projects can reach a wider audience than the GNU-only system can,
> and they can incorporate libraries and functionalities that the upstream
> project is unwilling to adopt for philosophical reasons. With the right
> relationship to these projects, some improvements can also be ported back
> and thus benefit everybody.

Sounds nice in principle, but an example would help me to be clear on what
that might look like in practice.

John