Re: CEDET maintainer

[Stefan Monnier]

Hi,

> I'm proposing myself as a CEDET maintainer,

Excellent!

> If the Emacs maintainers, decide that I'm worthy of it, my initial
> idea is to develop CEDET in a separate branch for now, even tho
> I think the send patch workflow is valid, for a package like CEDET
> that needs a lot of changes, this can really slow down the process.

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I'm not very familiar with CEDET, but having converted it recently to
use lexical-binding, I'm a bit less lost in it, let's say.  So I'd be
happy to play the middle man between Emacs's `master` and you until we
feel comfortable giving you direct write access.

Adding an Semantic backend to Xref would indeed be a great first step.
Other things that come to mind in terms of maintenance:
- IIRC there were changes in the upstream CEDET code which still haven't
  been merged into Emacs's `master`.
- Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com> has a branch of CEDET (sadly
  based on Emacs as of a year ago) at https://gitlab.com/atamariya/emacs
  which includes various interesting additions (such as an SQL
  grammar).  I recently started to try and work with him to start
  merging some of those changes into Emacs's `master`.
These branches are evidence of the need to try and merge things into
Emacs's `master` promptly and regularly, otherwise it becomes hard to
get them merged back and the risk of them getting lost in the long term
is high.


        Stefan


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