New Maintainer

Emacs has a new maintainer. Thanks to John Wiegley for taking on a hard, and often thankless, job.

Wiegley has been very active in Emacs development—including authoring the wonderful use-package and eshell packages—and has lots of good ideas. If you’re not familiar with his work, take a look at his chat with Sacha about Emacs or his chat with Sacha on Elisp development. There’s also a video with Sacha about organizing your Emacs configuration with use-package that I didn’t get a chance to write about.

I was excited when Wiegley expressed interest in the job and hoped he would be chosen. For his part, Wiegley is promising to make Emacs development a better place:

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