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

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

On Sun, 2020-06-21 at 01:08 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I haven't followed this thread very closely, but it seems we've strayed
> far enough away from Emacs that it's become quite offtopic.

Yeah, it probably did.

> I may be wrong (since I haven't followed the thread very closely) but my
> understanding is that Konstantin would like it for Emacs to accept
> submission using a "merge request" model or something like that.
> 
> We've discussed this many times in the past.  IIUC, we're slowly going
> there (see https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Fsf_2019_forge_evaluation), but
> we're an old project, and those people who most contribute to Emacs tend
> not to go very much for the shiny new stuff, so if you like the shiny
> new stuff I recommend you a healthy dose of patience.

Yeah, that was one of points I mentioned in my 1st email. Thanks for the link!