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Re: New maintainer
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: New maintainer |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Oct 2015 02:26:19 +0900 |
John Wiegley writes:
> I'm beginning to think GNU Emacs will need someone who also cares
> about the freedom argument first, and the technical needs second,
> because I'm very much concerned I would chomping at the bit to move
> forward, and unable to for reasons I don't necessarily agree with.
I wouldn't worry about that if I were you. The principle itself
bothers me a heck of a lot more than the exercise of it does.
In the twenty years I've been following Emacs development, I can
remember only four occasions where Richard has deliberately sacrificed
significant improvements to Emacs in the name of promoting either
software freedom or the GNU Project: TRAMP, Bazaar, DSOs, and now use
of the AST exported by LLVM.
Of course, the TRAMP mistake has long since been corrected, and the
Bazaar fiasco is a thing of the past. The no-DSO policy has been
rescinded recently, and work is actively proceeding on adding that
feature. LLVM? "This, too, will pass."
Bottom line: just thinking about it is frustrating, yes, but
"consistently hampered" (your words) in getting work done? No.
- Re: New maintainer, (continued)
- Re: New maintainer, Karl Fogel, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, David Kastrup, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, John Wiegley, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Karl Fogel, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Phillip Lord, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, John Wiegley, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Phillip Lord, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, David Kastrup, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: New maintainer, David Kastrup, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/12
- Re: New maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, John Wiegley, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, David Kastrup, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, joakim, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/09
- Re: New maintainer, Tom, 2015/10/12
- Re: New maintainer, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/10/11