Re: XEmacs no longer has a Gentoo maintainer
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 12:32 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> I'm pressed for time and rather spend it on things that
matter
> directly for my business. Unfortunately XEmacs' incompatibilities
> with Emacs modes that are floating around online and that I need to
> use were getting in the way of that more and more.
Would you be willing to write up a report of what you need, or want :-),
that XEmacs doesn't work with?
Specific modes that I had trouble with were
https://github.com/defunkt/coffee-mode
https://github.com/michaelklishin/cucumber.el
https://github.com/antonj/scss-mode
> While I realize that people here care, things are just moving too slowly
> and I don't see that improving in the future.
I disagree, but ... revisit us around Christmas. We'll see.
For the project's sake I hope I'm wrong.
> So I've resigned as Gentoo XEmacs maintainer a week or so
ago.
How was your experience as Gentoo maintainer? I ask because I have
two friends who are ex-maintainers for reasons that have more to do
with what they consider "Gentoo politics" than with work pressure,
etc. I consider them biased (they're almost as opinionated as I am,
so I'm not surprised they would run into "politics" :-), but I
wouldn't be surprised if other people have heard similar things.
Just to be clear I only resigned from the XEmacs part. I'm now focusing
fully on all the Ruby work in Gentoo that needs to be done there.
As far as the "politics" go, that seems to happen a lot less recently
then before. With such a large group of volunteers with different
opinions there will always be different ideas on how to move forward.
Sometimes that can be nasty when people dig in to their positions and
start to make things personal. Realizing that there are people on the
other side as well can put that in perspective. And obviously where
stuff like this happens behind closed doors in normal organizations all
our communication is out in the open to see for everyone, so people
think we have it bad while the same thing happens down the hall in the
closed conference room.
Kind regards,
Hans
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