Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

On Sat, 2020-06-20 at 22:57 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:
> 
> > I also don't think GNU projects are any good to make examples of. This is my
> > general experience of seeing how new projects get under GNU umbrella to get
> > never heard of (which I attribute to points listed in my starting mail,
> > since
> > most of them are unspecific to Emacs).
> 
> This is where I stopped reading and considering your points to be valid.

lol. This is a very helpful mail, thanks for contributing to discussion!

> There are countless things that determine whether a person will
> contribute to a project or not — even projects that you “don’t think […]
> are any good”.  Pinning a complex behaviour on commit message format is
> beyond ludicrous.

I didn't.