Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:

> I also don't think GNU projects are any good to make examples of. This is my
> general experience of seeing how new projects get under GNU umbrella to get
> never heard of (which I attribute to points listed in my starting mail, since
> most of them are unspecific to Emacs).

This is where I stopped reading and considering your points to be valid.

There are countless things that determine whether a person will
contribute to a project or not — even projects that you “don’t think […]
are any good”.  Pinning a complex behaviour on commit message format is
beyond ludicrous.

-- 
Ricardo