From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New maintainer
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:08:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738ukou29.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8738ukow64.fsf@bzg.ath.cx
Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> It's also been a pleasure to witness the surprisingly successful
>> marriage of two different coding styles: Bastien's damn-the-torpedoes
>> patch-the-SOB-and-get-it-out-the-door approach, matched with Nicolas'
>> return to first principles: structure and cleanliness. I'm quite
>> convinced that the two approaches have been equally essential to Org
>> mode's current success (and advance apologies for any perceived
>> mischaracterizations!).
>
> Yeah.
>
> Let me quote Jamie Zawinski's interview from "Coders at work":
>
> Zawinski: [...] It's great to rewrite your code and make it cleaner
> and by the third time it'll actually be pretty. But that's not the
> point---you're not here to write code, you're here to ship products.
>
> Seibel: Folks engaged in overengineering usually say, "Well, once
> I've got this framework in place everything will be easy after that.
> So I'll actually save time by doing this.
>
> Zawinski: That is always the theory.
>
> Seibel: And there are times when that theory is true, when someone
> has good sense and the framework isn't too elaborate, and it does
> save time.
>
> I actually agree with both points of view, especially with the last
> sentence. And it's easy to play jwz when you can trust someone for
> playing the other role :)
And, without re-opening any tedious discussions that we've already put
behind us, it's generally the person playing the jwz role who ends up as
"maintainer" -- and that's probably as it should be.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-21 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-18 16:53 New maintainer Bastien
2013-04-18 17:10 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-18 18:10 ` John Hendy
2013-04-18 18:20 ` Bastien
2013-04-18 18:38 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-18 19:48 ` Alan L Tyree
2013-04-18 20:07 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-18 20:16 ` Alan L Tyree
2013-04-19 8:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-04-20 7:57 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-21 8:06 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-21 12:41 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-04-18 18:53 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-18 17:19 ` Glyn Millington
2013-04-18 18:14 ` Aaron Ecay
2013-04-18 18:15 ` Rasmus
2013-04-18 18:23 ` Bastien
2013-04-18 18:20 ` Detlef Steuer
2013-04-18 18:26 ` François Pinard
2013-04-18 19:58 ` Alan Schmitt
2013-04-18 20:07 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-04-18 20:13 ` Bastien
2013-04-18 20:16 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2013-04-18 21:52 ` Tom Davey
2013-04-20 8:29 ` Ian Barton
2013-04-19 0:24 ` Charles Berry
2013-04-19 7:07 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-04-19 0:32 ` Bernt Hansen
2013-04-19 1:02 ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2013-04-19 4:12 ` Noorul Islam Kamal Malmiyoda
2013-04-19 6:09 ` Robert Klein
2013-04-19 7:00 ` Christian Moe
2013-04-19 7:58 ` Thank you very much Bastien! Hello Carsten! (was: New maintainer) Karl Voit
2013-04-19 9:36 ` New maintainer Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-19 9:59 ` Sean O'Halpin
2013-04-19 11:33 ` Charles Philip Chan
2013-04-19 12:52 ` Adolfo Benedetti
2013-04-19 12:53 ` Rainer Stengele
2013-04-19 14:30 ` Russell Adams
2013-04-19 16:04 ` Christopher Allan Webber
[not found] ` <CAFChFyjpy2R10gJmxJ-DKDbAVjj6MnD5JN+vX5bY5MvHbf3z3w@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-20 1:03 ` Fwd: " Gary Oberbrunner
2013-04-21 10:24 ` T.F. Torrey
2013-04-21 10:47 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-21 13:22 ` Bastien
2013-04-21 14:08 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2013-04-21 18:04 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-21 22:39 ` Bastien
2013-04-22 7:57 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-21 22:18 ` AG
2013-04-22 10:27 ` Julian M. Burgos
2013-04-22 16:53 ` Jay Kerns
2013-04-22 16:55 ` Matt Price
2013-04-23 16:46 ` Jason Dunsmore
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