Re: New mainainer for emcas ada2005 mode

[Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>]

Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
>
>> Martin Krischik writes:
>>> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>>>> Please consider joining the upstream emacs project instead.
>>>
>>> Sure. But joining the upstream is also an upstream struggle. Ada is then
>>> only one minor part of the hole project. For example: In the vim
>>> development the runtime files/scripts are only changed when a new version
>>> comes out. vim 7.0 is fairly new so it can take quite a while until vim 7.1
>>> comes out.
>>
>> That is a short-sighted argument.  Yes, it takes more effort to join
>> the upstream team.  So what?  The benefits are well worth it.  As more
>> and more tools gain native support for Ada more people will be
>> intrigued and consider using Ada in their software.  The upstream
>> authors themselves might be sufficiently intrigued to investigate the
>> language.  Contrast this with separate add-ons that require potential
>> users:
>>
>> - to be aware of their existence
>> - to be convinced that they are well integrated in their tool
>> - to actively look for them
>> - to download them
>> - to install them
>> - to maintain them when their tool changes
>>
>> That is the reason why I have joined the Debian GCC maintainers,
>> rather than maintaining gnat separately from GCC.  And that is the
>> reason why, a while ago, I recommended that you do the same for your
>> distribution of choice.
>
> And that is also why GNAT was integrated into GCC, raising awareness
> of Ada to unprecedented levels.

I plan to join the 'upstream emacs' project. However, it may also be
useful, as Martin points out, to have a place to do intermediate
releases. The Sourceforge Gnu Ada project seems like a reasonable
place, although a Savannah project might be more appropriate.

I hope to set up a Gnu Emacs Ada mode mailing list somewhere, to
discuss the future of Ada mode, and details about proposed changes.

Is that possible on the Sourceforge site (a dedicated mailing list)?

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-- Stephe