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

[Emanuel Berg]

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!

What do you mean?

Why can't more people be involved?

But if they can't, then yes: the remaining three guys
maintaining hundreds of files will have to deal with a lot
of complexity, for sure.

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