> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2023 at 5:01 AM > From: "Eli Zaretskii" <e...@gnu.org> > To: "Christopher Dimech" <dim...@gmx.com> > Cc: arne_...@web.de, m...@eshelyaron.com, Emacs-tangents@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Blog post > > > Cc: Eshel Yaron <m...@eshelyaron.com>, Emacs-tangents@gnu.org > > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:20:56 +0100 > > From: Christopher Dimech via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions > > outside the scope of other > > Emacs mailing lists <emacs-tangents@gnu.org> > > > > I put the emphasis on the maintainers themselves to eliminate chaos within > > their project. The latter could be the specific area where our opinions > > differ. > > Users typically focus upon specific details, whereas software designers > > focus on > > making everything work well together. From my experience, being a > > maintainer requires > > a higher level of concentration and control of the external. > > It is quite clear to me from what you wrote above that your mental > model and vision of maintainership of a project like Emacs are very > different from the reality, starting from what does it mean to be a > maintainer of such a project and what is its job description. > > Given that, your criticism is mostly off-mark.
Yes, my vision of maintainership of any project is much different. --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
