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Re: New maintainer


From: John Wiegley
Subject: Re: New maintainer
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:46:10 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin)

>>>>> Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> writes:

> What about Ethical skills? I would argue that technical skills are not
> sufficient especially for maintaining a major GNU package like Emacs. Using
> MacOSX & iOS as main operating systems and Hangout/Skype for communications,
> seems incompatible with the role to me.

I also disagree with the spirit of the GPL, vocally in fact. If the requisite
for maintaining Emacs is that one use (GNU/)Linux and espouse the philosophies
of RMS, that is not me.

However: are you looking for someone to act as an arm of the FSF, or do you
want the best possible Emacs?

John



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