Re: New maintainer

[Karl Fogel]

"John Wiegley" <address@hidden> writes:
>> An important question for John is how he would feel about RMS overriding
>> technical decisions -- that is, decisions John might feel are purely
>> technical -- for philosophical reasons. Can John live with that happening
>> occasionally? Because it surely would.
>
>It has happened before: for example, Bazaar vs. Git, and not allowing dynamic
>loading of libraries. Yet both of these positions changed over time. I can't
>think of a "political over technical" decision right now that bothers me; and
>the fact that those that did finally resolved themselves, gives me faith in
>being able to work with the FSF. So yes, I can live with it happening
>occasionally.

...and that answers my question! :-)  Thank you.

>I further think that working alongside Eli would be nice, if he's up for it.
>Having an active co-maintainer would relieve some of the time pressure of this
>position, since I can't give equal focus every week.

+1 to both the general and the specific portions of that.