bug#47047: [External] : Re: bug#47047: 28.0.50; 'help-key-binding' face's background sub-optimal

[Stefan Kangas]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> 1. IMO, bugginess of a theme should matter (should
>    be thought about, as you put it), but low usage
>    (coverage?) should not.  Why remove a theme just
>    because it's seldom used?

What I mean by coverage is that it has only few faces defined, which
leads to inconsistent results.

I don't think we have any way of knowing how much it is used, so that
will be a hard metric to apply.

(We rarely see bug reports for them, however, which is some indication.)

> 3. I have no idea who the "maintainer" of that theme is.
>    We were asked to contribute themes when custom themes
>    became a possibility, and I sent that one.

That was a commendable initiative on your part.

The question I am thinking about is what to do about it now.  Perhaps we
(read: our users) aren't well served by unmaintained/incomplete themes?
Perhaps there are other themes that we would want to include (see
modus-themes)?  These are the issues that interest me.

Second.  Conventionally, when there is only an "Author" but no
"Maintainer" line, the author is also the maintainer.  If you don't
consider yourself the maintainer, and no one else wants to step up, the
conventional thing would be to add a line "Maintainer: emacs-devel".
That's my understanding at least.