Re: What's missing in ELisp that makes people want to use cl-lib?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 14:10:20 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > This is a volunteer-based project, so we have no way of
> > "distributing the maintenance effort", unless people
> > volunteer to do it. In particular, for absolute majority of
> > the Emacs code, the people who wrote the code are no longer
> > on board. That's the reality.
> >
> > If you mean that the authors who are still here should be
> > asked to take care of their code, then this is already being
> > done, always, and cannot be done to any higher degree.
> 
> Yes, I understand, but we can still just hand out files to
> people, "now you are maintaining this file". That person will
> have to agree, of course.

In the real world, where I live, this is also unbecoming, and thus
practically impossible.  Good luck leading a volunteer project with
these ideas!